[Mark]

Mark asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If you look at a globe, there are several very large peninsulas - Korea, Thailand, Florida, Baja California, Italy. All of these seem to be attached to the mainland at the northern end of the peninsula - why?

What do you think?

[chris]

Hmm - that's a good question - although Cape York, Australia, is at the top of a very long south-attached peninsula, and I'm sure there must be more examples...

[Don_1]

Just mussing here, might this have something to do with the fact that most of the land mass is in the northern hemisphere?

[LeeE]

I'm with Don_1 on this - most of the land mass is in the northern hemisphere.  It's interesting how the 'pointy' bits of South America, Africa and the Indian subcontinent all point south.  The Yucatan peninsula is quite a large North-pointing peninsula though.