User:Mmcannis/Sandbox/Peninsula discussion for Promontory Mountains

A peninsular mountain range
This Promontory Mountains, mountain range is a peninsula, (not a cape), and is also a unique m. range in the [:Category:Mountain ranges of the Great Basin], being mostly interior to the Great Salt Lake. (also, (it is) Just like there are a few "island mountain ranges" interior to the [Great Salt Lake Desert], ([Newfoundland Mountains] and most of the [Silver Island Range], etc.)---
 * My understanding of the difference between a [Cape (geography)|cape] and a [peninsula] is that a peninsula is connected to the mainland by an [isthmus] (a narrow strip of land). The Promontory Mountains appear to jut out into the Great Salt Lake with a relatively even width averaging five to seven miles for the entire length. I think that this would make it a cape, and that the article is correct as it is. I'm not really clear on the remainder of your comment. Can you explain it further? By the way, thanks for your contributions on the mountain articles I've noticed you've been working on, and also the Blue Creek Valley. I thought I was the only one who cared about that area!
 * Satisfy your curiosity of a peninsula, by examining the photos on the wikipedia article [Peninsula]....and I think the classic isthmus definition, 'a narrowing of land', can be easily understood by the classic: "Isthmus of Panama".--I'll now look at the article in wikipedia for Isthmus.(Like the [Baja Peninsula] or the [Florida peninsula], the Promontories (not the North Promontory Mtns), are a clssic peninsula. (Capes, as a jutting piece of land from an otherwise flat, or regular coastline, often requires a Lighthouse for Navigation/Shipping safety.)---If I cared (enuff) to have changed the article, I would have. If others have tried and met resistance, then it's on those (people) who need to go to the textbooks, or school, (or a [cabal] of the "knowing".)(Comparing the Promontory Mountains peninsula to a "classis cape" (think Cape Hatteras), will be a comparison that requires very little "study", "testing", "research". I have always liked the word de facto, because there ARE things that are obvious. (I assume about 95 of 100 people would know that it is a peninsula...(the article hasn't been read by enuff people who care to change it to make it accurate.)...ANNNDDDD.... apparently the specialists, who know the Article, apparently don't know. (...sorry for intentional haughtiness, but I am trying to state, my position... (I will NOT go change an article, that ON ITS FACE, is a "problem"... that so many people let such a cape/peninsula problem be ignored, (as other cases in Wikipedia) is a problem. (This is a Wikipedia problem, not an editting problem. (To make a landform, like the Baja Peninsula, or the Florida Peninsula, into Baja Cape vs. Florida Cape,wouldn't get by in Wikipedia)(Sorry)


 * Note: Capes are often L-shaped because the "barrier" island formed is evolved by current flow, of sand/earth-(over time)