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the isthmus that connects Central America and South America; was formerly called the Isthmus of Darien
Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Darien
How To Use Isthmus of Panama In A Sentence
- In this region of the isthmus of Panama the rainforest is extremely dense, and the only means of travelling there is to go upriver by pirogue. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
- Recent news from America bring the intelligence that the Government of the United States has at length succeeded in finding a reasonable excuse for exercising a protectorate over, or in other words annexing, the Isthmus of Panama. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
- I cannot believe that the Isthmus of Panama has been open since the commencement of the glacial period; for, notwithstanding the fishes, so few shells, crustaceans, and, according to Agassiz, not one echinoderm is common to the sides. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
- In 1903, Panama and the United States signed a treaty by which the United States undertook to construct an interoceanic ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama.
- North America is connected with South America by the Isthmus of Panama.