Crown lands are those not in private hands, basically. They are held on
behalf of the crown by the govt. In austrlaia this is at state level mainly.
For example, all the large pastoral leases in the outback are crown lands
leased out to graziers. Various reserves and parks are also crown lands,
held back fomr alientation to private hands.
IN the US this probably equates to federal lands, but herei n Australai,
fecderal lands means stuff owned by the federal govt itsefl, like military
bases, quarantine stations, etc.
The central or even state govts can sell off crown lands, but i suspect the
process is different fomr selling real estate that is owned by the govt as
an institution. Ie the govt could buy land for a govt building off a private
owner, asnd then resell it as normal. But crown lands require alienation
first.
Thus crown lands does not mean federal land outside the states, but is
inside the states, or provinces in canada. Because each state/privince was a
separate colony before federation in each of our countries, so had its own
crown lands. As terra nullius, Austrlaia was all corwn land once claimed by
the UK. What is left is either of little value, ie outback, or reserves, ie
parks, coastal strips, etc.
BW
>From: michael donner <m@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] revised canada & caus guesses
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 18:54:13 -0400
>
>htCrown lands are those not in priate hands,
>basicallytp://realtor.mls.ca/london/MNR/fact_sheet_ls2.htm
> in the section entitled what are crown lands
>surprised me by implying that crown may mean not only the federal
>government but also a provincial government as well
>
>aha
>
>
>if this is true
>then all the canadian crown inland waters may well have been fully
>distributed to the provinces & territories
>& thus may not produce federative tripoints at all
>
>aha
>
>so maybe no need to get drunk without a life jacket in ontario after all
>
>
>& if that is the case
>then all the dreaded myriads of hypothetical freshwater federative
>tripoints
> both the internal ones & those on the caus line
>simply dry up on the spot
>leaving only the maritime crown waters tripoints still probably intact
>
>
>anyway i certainly hope this is all true
>because then the analysis could be completed fairly easily
>& in esthetically pleasing & even & round numbers to boot
>
>granted that there would still be at least several possible views
>& with all due respect to them
>but following the nicholson information previously culled
>i would summarize the major domestic multipoints as follows
>
> 0 multiprovincial points
> 4 mixed status multipoints all on the 60th parallel
>10 mixed status coastal federal waters multipoints well scattered
>26 multiterritorial coastal federal waters points all arctic
>
>40 total legally real primary subdivisional multipoints
>
>
>& i would summarize the tripoints on the caus international boundary as
>follows
>
>18 mixed provincial or territorial & state tripoints on inland boundaries
> 8 crown waters & provincial or territorial & state tripoints on coasts
> 4 crown & american & state waters tripoints at 3 mile limits disputed
>
>30 total legally real mixed interfederative tripoints
>
>
>ahh
>that feels good
>
>m
>
>
>
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