Personally, I would count a tunnel as a land boundary-- why not?
(Not a bridge, and I'm not sure about a causeway.)
It is now 1 to 1, what do the rest of you say?
A key point would be, what law applies? Does building a causeway change
the three-mile limit at all? What about coastal landfills, or drainage
projects? Did the dykes and polders of the Netherlands change their 3
mile limits at all?
David
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Brendan Whyte wrote:
> 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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