What is a tombolo?
A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, derived from the Latin tumulus, meaning 'mound', and sometimes translated as ayre, is a deposition landform in which an island is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a spit or bar. Once attached, the island is then known as a tied island. A tombolo is a sandy isthmus.
Several islands tied together by bars which rise above the water level are called a tombolo cluster. Two or more tombolos may form an enclosure (called a lagoon) that can eventually fill with sediment.
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Kat
The tombola is the isthmus, not the island.
michael Cogar
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tom·bo·lo
/ˈtämbəˌlō/
noun
a bar of sand or shingle joining an island to the mainland.
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Howard Groopman
No man is an island. And no island is a tombolo.
Mary Gini Fudge Chapman
By definition, a tombolo is a sand or gravel bar connecting an island with the mainland or another island.
Phoebe Figalily
Steve Braccini, and yet you continue to play this free game. Ridiculous!!!
rosemarymee
There's one on Shetland.
Chris Marshall
Tombola is a numbers game same as bingo played on navy ships
Joanne Serin
If it is attached to the mainland, how can it be an island?
David Coe
Reported as incorrect answer
Kath Thomson
Thought it was a peninsula.
Chrissy Krainock Luders
I recognize the picture, it’s in Kauai at Poipu beach. The one pictured connects or disconnects based on Time of year, high tide or storms.
Margaret O'Neill
Wrong!! I want my points, this happens quite often! Who is monitoring these pages?
David Stokes
deborahpmercer, Thanks for that, my Italian isn't that extensive that I differentiate between tombolo and Tombola.
Tim Holm
I thought the tombolo is the sand bar between and the island
Pat Wells
Good question; thank you, Carol.
deborahpmercer
As opposed to a tombola, a form of gambling in which irony dictates that I always win a jigsaw puzzle, even though I am the world's worst solver of them!