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Península Mitre
Península Mitre, also proposed as Península Haush, is the easternmost peninsula of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Argentina; a Ramsar site (2024) and provincial protected area (2022) known for vast peatlands and kelp forests.
Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia (Semenanjung Malaysia), also West Malaysia or Malaya, is Malaysia's mainland portion: 131,690 km², 11 states plus Kuala Lumpur FT, independent as the Federation of Malaya in 1957, forming Malaysia in 1963.
Penrhyn atoll
Penrhyn, or Tongareva, is the northernmost and largest atoll of the Cook Islands at 9°S, 157°W: 14 low islets around a large lagoon, sighted in 1788, annexed by Britain in 1888, with villages Omoka and Te Tautua.
Pentecost Island
Pentecost Island (Pentecôte, Pentikos, Raga) is a 490 km² island in Penama Province, Vanuatu, 190 km north of Port Vila, home of the naghol land diving ritual that inspired bungee jumping and birthplace of Walter Lini.
Percé Rock
Percé Rock (rocher Percé), a reddish limestone monolith off Percé, Quebec, at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula; 471 m long, 75–88 m high, with a sea arch, sandbar link, 1919 bird sanctuary status, and protected national park setting.
Petermann Island
Petermann Island is an Antarctic island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered by Eduard Dallmann in 1874 and known for its gentoo penguin colony.
Phantom island
Phantom islands, also called ghost islands or ex-isles, are islands charted on maps, sometimes for centuries, that were later proven nonexistent; causes include mirages, icebergs, copied errors, fraud, and cases like Sandy Island and Bermeja.
Phi Phi Islands
Phi Phi Islands: limestone archipelago in Thailand's Andaman Sea, Krabi province, in Hat Noppharat Thara–Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park. Main islands Phi Phi Don and Phi Phi Leh; Maya Bay, The Beach filming site, closed 2018–2022 for reef recovery.
Phillip Island
Phillip Island (Millowl) is a 100 km2 island in Western Port, Victoria, home of the Bunurong's Yallock Bulluk clan, the famous little penguin Penguin Parade, and the Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit, connected to San Remo by bridge.
Phoenix Islands
Phoenix Islands (Rawaki group): eight coral islands in central Pacific Kiribati, mostly uninhabited, enclosed by the 408,250 sq km Phoenix Islands Protected Area, a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2010; commercial fishing closure of 2015 was repealed in 2021.
Phú Quốc
Phú Quốc (Phu Quoc, Đảo Ngọc), Vietnam's largest island in the Gulf of Thailand, now the special zone Phú Quốc in An Giang province: 567 km² main island, 150 km coast, fish sauce and pepper, UNESCO biosphere, APEC 2027 host.
Phuket
Phuket (ภูเก็ต), Thailand's largest island province in the Andaman Sea, 570 km² with 32 satellite islands; historic tin port once called Jungceylon and Thalang, now a major tourist destination with over 14.5 million visitors in 2024.
Pig Beach
Pig Beach is Big Major Cay, an uninhabited cay in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas, home to about 20 feral swimming pigs descended from livestock relocated from Staniel Cay in the early 1990s, reachable only by boat.
Pitt Islands
Pitt Islands (Islas Avellaneda) are a small island group at the north end of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, at 65°26′S 65°30′W. Named by John Biscoe in 1832 for William Pitt; charted by Rymill's BGLE in 1935-36; home to the Jinks Island Complex and Gentoo penguins.
Plum Island (New York)
Plum Island, New York: 840-acre island in Long Island Sound off Orient Point, federal since 1899 as Fort Terry, home of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center from 1954, now slated for preservation after NBAF replaced it.
Pohnpei
Pohnpei is one of four states of the Federated States of Micronesia, a mountainous volcanic island with outlying atolls, capital Kolonia, home to the UNESCO World Heritage megalithic site Nan Madol, formerly ruled by Spain, Germany, Japan, and the US.
Point (geography)
Point (geography): a tapering, generally low-elevation piece of land projecting into a sea, lake, or river, less prominent than a cape; gazetteer feature code PT, related to headland, promontory, and cape.
Point Reyes
Point Reyes (Tamál-Húye to the Coast Miwok) is a Marin County, California peninsula on the San Andreas Fault, protected since 1962 as Point Reyes National Seashore, with Coast Miwok village sites, the 1579 Drake landfall, historic dairy ranches, and about 151 recorded shipwrecks nearby.
Pointe du Hoc
Pointe du Hoc: Normandy promontory between Omaha and Utah beaches scaled by 225 US Army Rangers under Lt. Col. James E. Rudder on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to destroy a 155mm German battery whose guns had been moved inland.
Pollepel Island
Pollepel Island (Bannerman Island) is a 6.5-acre Hudson River island in Fishkill, NY, holding the ruins of Bannerman Castle, an arsenal warehouse built 1901–1918 by Francis Bannerman VI, damaged by a 1920 explosion and 1969 fire, now toured via the Bannerman Castle Trust.
Porcher Island
Porcher Island, a 531 sq km island in Hecate Strait off the Skeena River mouth southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia; Gitxaala (Kitkatla) territory with communities Oona River, Hunts Inlet, and Humpback Bay, historic gold mines, and the Gitxaala Nii Luutiksm/Kitkatla Conservancy.
Porto Santo Island
Porto Santo Island (Ilha do Porto Santo), Portuguese Atlantic island of the Madeira archipelago, 42.48 km², 9 km golden beach, Pico do Facho 517 m, discovered 1418, linked to Columbus.
Pourquoi Pas Island
Pourquoi Pas Island, an uninhabited mountainous Antarctic island in Marguerite Bay, Graham Land, between Bigourdan and Bourgeois Fjords; discovered by Charcot 1908-10, named by Rymill's BGLE for Charcot's ship Pourquoi-Pas?; highest peak Mount Verne 1,633 m.
Poveglia
Poveglia is a small fan-shaped island in the Venetian Lagoon off Malamocco, the Lazzaretto Nuovissimo of Venice's plague-quarantine system, used unofficially for ship quarantine until 1814, later abandoned and famed as a haunted island.
Prescott Island
Prescott Island: name of two official Canadian islands, one between Porcher and Stephens Islands, British Columbia, and one uninhabited Arctic island in Peel Sound, Nunavut; also a Minnesota river islet.
Prime Head
Prime Head is the snow-covered northernmost headland of Trinity Peninsula and the Antarctic Peninsula at 63°13'S 57°17'W, named by the UK-APC in 1963; Argentina and Chile call it Cabo Siffrey.
Prince Charles Island
Prince Charles Island is a large semicircular island in Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada (122 x 95 km, up to 76 m elevation), officially named in 1949, with major shorebird breeding grounds and polar bears.
Prince Edward Islands
The Prince Edward Islands (Marion and Prince Edward islands) are South Africa's subantarctic volcanic territory, annexed 1947–48, about 1,920 km from Cape Town, with a Marion Island research station, Special Nature Reserve status, and a mouse eradication plan.
Prince Harald Coast
Prince Harald Coast (Prins Harald Kyst), part of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, along Lützow-Holm Bay between 34°E and 40°E; discovered by air in 1937 by the Lars Christensen Expedition and named for the infant Norwegian prince.
Prince of Wales Island (Alaska)
Prince of Wales Island is the largest island of Alaska's Alexander Archipelago and third largest in the U.S., 2,577 sq mi with about 6,000 residents, Tongass forest roads, and Hollis-Ketchikan ferry access.