Hoo Peninsula

The Hoo Peninsula is a peninsula in Kent, England. It separates the estuaries of the  Thames and Medway. 

The peninsula has a line of chalk, clay and sand hills, surrounded by a big area of marshland. 

Hoo is a Saxon word believed to mean 'spur of land'. Hoo features in the Domesday Book.The place names of Kent, Judith Glover, 1976, Batsford.  The peninsula is home to protected wildlife sites. It also has industrial facilities and energy industries.

The mud around the Hoo Peninsula and the neighbouring Isle of Sheppey is mud from the end-Palaeocene and Eocene with plenty of bird remains.Clouter, Fred 2009: Sheppey Fossils – Birds. Retrieved 2009-AUG-05. Mayr, Gerald 2008. A skull of the giant bony-toothed bird Dasornis (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Lower Eocene of the Isle of Sheppey. Palaeontology 51(5): 1107–1116. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00798.x (HTML abstract)Mayr, Gerald 2009: Paleogene fossil birds. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg & New York. ISBN 3-540-89627-9

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Category:Geography of Kent
Category:Peninsulas of the United Kingdom