bravo
for our most coherent & sensible analysis to date
on this or any other topic
m
>
>Are the divided islands in Scandanavia TURNING POINTS in the boundaries?
>With the precise turning point at the peak or center of the island? If
>so, Peter's boundary marker theory seems obviously correct.
>
>But if the boundary is a straight line cutting the island, it can be
>hardly anything other than a co-incidence.
>
>Islands cut by boundaries can be expected anywhere that a fiat boundary,
>drawn on a map without knowing the details on the ground, crosses a region
>that contains islands. Lakes with islands are relatively rare on a global
>scale, most of them are in glaciated areas: Scandanavia and Canada and the
>former Soviet Union. Fiat boundaries should divide islands by chance
>mainly in those regions.
>
>David
>
>On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Peter Hering wrote:
>
>> Hi Arif,
>> concerning divided islands in Scandinavia,
>> this is my guess:
>> 1- they act as boundary markers - easy to
>> see, instead of buoys...
>> 2- since most of Scandinavian border regions
>> are inhabited by only very few people,
>> conflicts over ownership make no sense...
>> 3- they symbolize good neighbourhood!
>>
>> Anyway, Jesper and I are planning a short
>> 2 day expedition to the southern part of the
>> SeNo border and plant BoundaryPoint's flag
>> on these islands - wanna come...?!?
>> Regards - good weekend
>> Peter H.
>>
>> -------Original Message-------
>>
>> From: Arif Samad
>> Date: Friday, April 27, 2001 23:49:57
>> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Indian mess - French to blame?
>>
>> Brendan, Thank you for the research. I guess
>> Goretty disappeared as an enclave at some time. I
>> have not been able to find the 1991 census handbook,
>> so you are definitely more current.
>> I should have rephrased my question on divided
>> islands. I noticed there are other islands that are
>> divided, but the big islands mentioned were divided
>> with full knowledge of colonial consequences. They
>> are big islands that had to be divided as different
>> groups were in control of parts before the islands
>> were eventually divided and the division couldn't be
>> circumvented. Only US-Canada and Scandinavian borders
>> seem to divide tiny islands that could easily be
>> circumnavigated by the boundary lines. I wonder why
>> that is. Mike's explanation makes a lot of sense
>> though. Then again, all of them could just be
>> mistakes.
>> Brendan, don't you have the points for Baarle?
>> Maybe you could create excel charts of the small
>> enclaves in Baarle like ones done for Cyprus.
>> Arif
>>
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