Definition of Isthmus of kra

1. Noun. A narrow isthmus linking the Malay Peninsula to the Asian mainland.

Generic synonyms: Isthmus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Isthmus Of Kra

Israelitess
Israelitesses
Israelitic
Issa
Issachar
Issas
Issue
Issus
Istanbul
Istanbul twist
Istanbulite
Isthmian Games
Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
Isthmus Zapotec
Isthmus of Corinth
Isthmus of Kra
Isthmus of Panama
Isthmus of Suez
Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Istiophoridae
Istiophorus
Istiophorus albicans
Istria
Istrian
Istriot
Istro-Romanian
Istro-Romanians
Isuprel
Isuridae
Isurus

Literary usage of Isthmus of kra

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"AYU (" Malay Land "), the southernmost region in Asia, attached to Further India by the isthmus of Kra, in 10° N. 1st., whence it projects for about 600 ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"Loftus, [Commander] AJ—Notes of a Journey across the Isthmus of Kra, made with the French Government Survey Expedition, January-April, 1883, ..."

3. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"The Isthmus of Corinth, connecting Morea (the Peloponnesus) with Northern Greece, and the Isthmus of Kra, connecting the Malay Peninsula with ..."

4. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Siam. ej. British India : Himalaya ; Burma ; Ceylon. eg. Malay Peninsula from Isthmus of Kra ; Malay Archipelago, including Halmahera ..."

5. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"... wide at the Isthmus of Kra, where a ship canal would greatly shorten the voyages from western to eastern Asia. The gulfs of Siam in the east and of ..."

6. Handbook of Commercial Geography by George Goudie Chisholm (1908)
"It is highly mountainous, and clothed with dense tropical forests, but at its northern end, at the Isthmus of Kra (between 10° and 11° N.), there is a gap ..."

7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"The strength of the monsoon on the eastern coast would have to be reckoned with in carrying out any Isthmus of Kra canal scheme, ..."

8. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"The strength of the monsoon on the eastern coast would have to be reckoned with in carrying out any Isthmus of Kra canal scheme, for Chumpon Bay is fully ..."

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