Subject: Re: divided islands-an answer
Date: Apr 28, 2001 @ 14:49
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., David Mark <dmark@g...> wrote:
> 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@y...
> > 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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