I would not count a bridge or causeway as a land boundary, any more than the
chunnel. Thus Singapore is an island, as is Bahrain, and Denmark has one
land border.
Interesting special cases but not proper land boundaries.
BW

>From: "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Gideon Biger - reply to BW+query!
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:31:59 -0000
>
>Is this a land border? A sea border? Or an air space border? A border
>on a bridge is peculiar...
>
>If it is within the 12 nm zone of both countries, I would say it is
>above territorial waters. So if not a land border, then something
>very similar. But I don't think this Gideon Biger counts boundaries
>in terr. water as land boundaries. He would count boundaries in
>internal water as such (incl. all sea inside of the baseline). But I
>don't have his book here, so what do I know...
>
>Peter S.
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Mats Hessman <Mats@l...> wrote:
> > > don't fret about your country only having one border. After
> > > all, Australia
> > > is no-Biger than yours!
> >
> >
> > > >Well, Brendan, I guess you're right, DK most
> > > >certainly deserves no more than one copy...
> > > >having only one boundary line...
> >
> > I must protest! From June 2000 Denmark is entitled
> > to another copy of Biger.
> >
> > Take a look at the non-wet boundary marker on
> > Peter's own site (!) at
> > http://www.geocities.com/mafiapetedk/bordersweden2.html.
> >
> > Mats
>

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