I was reading a book from about 1948 on photogametry from the San Diego City Library [main]. In it, it mentioned the term tomulo. This was defined as a peninsula with is connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land.
I just wanted you surveyors to be aware of this term in case you ever need it.
~Peter
An example of a tomulo is the city of Coronado on San Diego bay. It is not an island as many realtors refer to it as. San Francisco is an example, I guess, of a regular peninsula. Incidentally, North Island is not an island and isn't north of anything.
never heard of that one and google didn't come back with too many valid results
according to the director of coastal resources, the key to a tombolo is that the mainland builds out to the island and not the other way around.
the north name may have been more valid when the beach was more natural. the south end of Nauset Beach (Cape Cod) is known as North Beach. in 1987 the barrier beach breached and almost immediately the island was named South Beach. in 2007 the beach breached again and we have North Beach Island.
eventually North Beach Island and South Beach will erode away and North Beach will again build to the south. a veritable misnomer for a real reason.
looking at North Island, I have to wonder if it was ever severed.
Sort of like a tombolo?
I guess the two terms are related. Where did you come across that?
~Peter
