Datça Peninsula

The cape is a small peninsula nearly an island, connected to the mainland by a low, 100m-wide spit of land; in antiquity, it was a man-made causeway.

The locality is called Balıkaşıran (literally, the place where fish may leap across) and is also often used for the portage of small boats.

Because of the many natural bays and harbors, the peninsula is often visited by private yachts,[citation needed] and is included in the boat tours usually departing from Bodrum or Marmaris and termed Blue Cruises.

[citation needed] There are ruins of Greek cities both at Datça and Tekir, one or both of which may correspond to ancient Knidos (q.v.).

[3] Both the town and the peninsula of Datça were called Reşadiye for a brief period in the beginning of the 20th century, honoring the penultimate Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reşad, and some maps may still refer to the peninsula under this name; today Reşadiye is the name of one of the quarters of the town.