Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fly river<br/>
Date: May 02, 2001 @ 00:12<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1549525620">(HMS Fly). I wonder what the ship was named after...<br/>
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It was probablty small, and black ,and darted about annoying Her Majesty&#39;s <br/>
enemies, landing in their ice cream, leaving speckles on their wallpaper and <br/>
such....<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;<br/>
&gt;Peter S.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; &gt; Victor Prescott&#39;s book should have the details. you can buy copies<br/>
&gt;from him.<br/>
&gt; &gt; Email j.prescott@g... and ask for his &quot;Map of Mainland<br/>
&gt; &gt; Asia by Treaty&quot; and &quot;Boundaries of Asia and Southeats Asia&quot;.<br/>
&gt; &gt; The latter has the PNG details.<br/>
&gt; &gt; I suspect because it was a big river, it made sense to not leave<br/>
&gt;the inside<br/>
&gt; &gt; of a large bend outside of PNG when it made more practical sense to<br/>
&gt;leave it<br/>
&gt; &gt; to PNG<br/>
&gt; &gt; who could access it best.<br/>
&gt; &gt; I doubt it was ther Angle Inlet mistaker hypothesis. I will check<br/>
&gt;tomorrow.<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; B<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;From: &quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@y...&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@y...<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;To: BoundaryPoint@y...<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Fly river<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 09:26:42 -0000<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Thinking about the subject of straight borders, something that I<br/>
&gt;have<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;wondered about for a long time came up again. The island of New<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Guinea is divided by a pretty straight line. Almost straight,<br/>
&gt;because<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;there is the Fly river that forms the boundary between Indonesia<br/>
&gt;and<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Papua New Guinea for some distance. In a book about our own little<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Dutch Siberia (nothing to boast about actually), the penal colony<br/>
&gt;for<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;political prisoners at the Upper Digoel river in the &#39;thirties, I<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;read that most prisoners that fled tried to reach the Fly (no,<br/>
&gt;that&#39;s<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;probably NOT why that river is called that way), being the closest<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;borderline near the camp.<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Does anyone know why the Fly was included in the boundary? Straight<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;lines like the New Guinean one normally don&#39;t bother about rivers.<br/>
&gt;I<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;suspect an error like the N.W. Angle one...<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;Peter S.<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
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