Kinburn Spit

Coordinates: 46°33′31″N 31°31′40″E / 46.55861°N 31.52778°E / 46.55861; 31.52778

Kínburn Foreland or Kinburn Spit – a spit in Ochakiv Raion (district) of Mykolaiv Oblast at the Black Sea in Ukraine. It occupies the western part of the Kinburn Peninsula, being its natural extension stretching west into the Black Sea between the Dnieper-Buh estuary and the Bay of Yahorlyk. Its length is about 40 km, width – 8–10 km. In southern Ukraine, the Kinburn Foreland is often mistaken for being the entirety of the Kinburn Peninsula, of which it appears to be a part.

Regional Landscape Park

The Regional Landscape Park of Kinburn Foreland was created by a decision of the Mykolayiv Regional Council on a territory of 17,890 hectares, of which 5,631 ha is covered with water.

Park purposes:

Responsibility for compliance with environmental legislation, planning and development of the territory are assigned to the administration of the park which is located in Ochakov.

Flora and fauna

Kinburn foreland is a unique natural complex of Lower-Dnipro sands consisting of mosaics of sandy steppes, various wetlands and artificial pine plantations. The protected feather contributes to a major vegetation area at the foreland in a combination of lush herbaceous vegetation with a pine and oak forest. In the eastern part, swamps can be found.

Spit

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Arts and entertainment

Places

S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic

S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic is a Canadian 2001 documentary film by Daniel Cross. The narrative unfolds from the point of view of squeegee kids.

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Rotisserie

Rotisserie is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit – a long solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a fireplace or over a campfire, or roasted in an oven. This method is generally used for cooking large joints of meat or entire animals, such as pigs or turkeys. The rotation cooks the meat evenly in its own juices and allows easy access for continuous self-basting.

In medieval and early modern kitchens, the spit was the preferred way of cooking meat in a large household. A servant, preferably a boy, sat near the spit turning the metal rod slowly and cooking the food; he was known as the "spit boy" or "spit jack". Mechanical turnspits ("roasting jacks") were later invented, first powered by dogs on treadmills, and then by steam power and mechanical clockwork mechanisms. The spit could also be powered by a turbine mounted in the chimney with a worm transmission for torque and speed conversion. Spits are now usually driven by electric motors.