Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Continent marker<br/>
Date: May 15, 2001 @ 23:57<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-764400246"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;The Asia-Europe boundary markers come as a huge surprise to me.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;I have always thought that the Ural mountain boundary was just a broad <br/>
&gt;undefined aproximate line, and now there are markers!<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Where is the Asia-Africa boundary line then? and N - S America?<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Asia-Africa: political: Egypt/Israel and Gaza/Egypt boundary.<br/>
Or for a nicer physical line, the suez canal which leaves Sinai in Asia.<br/>
Or seeing Sinai is so symmetric, a nice biscting line N-S down it.<br/>
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N&S America.<br/>
Political &lt;1903: Colombia-Costarica<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;1903 Panama-Colombia<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Physical line: Panama canal.<br/>
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I like the Panama-Colombia line as it hasn&#39;t been crossed by a road (yet).<br/>
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The crest of the Urals and caucuses make a nice phusical line for europe, <br/>
but we might want to put Armenia, if not Azerbaijan in Europe culturally.<br/>
Thus there are near-overlapping but not quite coincident definitions of the <br/>
continent: physical, cultural, linguistic, political, ecological etc.<br/>
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Remember the Wallace line in Indonesia!<br/>
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BW<br/>
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