1854 V. Lush 5 Feb. (1971) 151 The boat beat about all the afternoon and towards evening ran fast upon the sandspit off the mouth of the Mungamungaroa Creek.
1910 S. P. Hyatt xv. 161 The town..stands on a little sandspit which juts out from a mangrove-circled bay.
1934 May 130/1 One result of the storm was that a sand spit was built out across a bay.
1974 Dec. 785/1 Its reef supported two islets, one a mere sandspit and the other some 350 yards long.