Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fly river<br/>
Date: May 01, 2001 @ 16:16<br/>
Author: Arif Samad (Arif Samad &lt;fHoiberg@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1491564257">Sorry to inform you of this, but the Papua New<br/>
Guinea-Indonesia boundary is not completely straight<br/>
even when you discount Fly River.  Yes, there are two<br/>
straight sections, but they would not connect if they<br/>
were extended.   The southern part of the boundary is<br/>
slighly to the east compared to the northern part. <br/>
This automatically tells us that it is not a mistake<br/>
as the thin extra southern part was compensation to<br/>
the Dutch, who had control of Indonesia.  The other<br/>
reason the southern part of the line was slightly<br/>
moved was because it now ends at the mouth of a river<br/>
instead of following an imaginary line all the way. <br/>
By the way, I believe the Fly River boundary was<br/>
created ao as not to separate a population on the<br/>
Eastern bank of the river, but I am not sure if this<br/>
population was colonial or indigenous.<br/>
Arif<br/>
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