Chersonesus (Chersone`sus) (i.e. continent island), a name which the Greeks gave to several peninsulas, viz., the Tauric C., the Crimea, the Thracian C., Gallipoli; the Cimbric C., Jutland; the Golden C., the Malay Peninsula.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cherra Punji * Chertsey