LAND BRIDGE Definition & Meaning

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land bridge

noun

Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals:
a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
a transcontinental rail route between countries, as those in Europe and East Asia, considered faster and less costly than all-sea routes.

land bridge

noun

(in zoogeography) a connecting tract of land between two continents, enabling animals to pass from one continent to the other

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Origin of land bridge¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Syria served as a land bridge across which Iran shipped weapons to Hezbollah for many years.

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Kurdish allies in northeast Syria and enabling them to continue maintaining detention camps holding Islamic State fighters and ensuring that Syria truly break with Iran and Hezbollah so that Syria will no longer serve as a land bridge to rearm Lebanese fighters.

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At the time, researchers were discovering some crucial clues about how humans had spread from Asia across the Bering Land Bridge into North America.

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The land bridge remained until about 8,000 years ago, after the end of the last ice age, when rising sea levels eventually cut Tasmania off from the Australian mainland.

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During the last ice age however, Australia and Tasmania were connected by a huge land bridge, which allowed people to reach Tasmania on foot.

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