Subject: Re: Hawar Islands-Info request
Date: Nov 22, 2001 @ 05:39
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Anton Sherwood <bronto@p...> wrote:
> I wonder how many sea boundaries would creep onto land (other than at
> their endpoints, i mean) if the sea drops in an ice age. It seems to me
> that for most purposes you'd want the boundary to be in the deepest
> water: so that future big ships can navigate in either state, and so
> that the shallow water (most useful for aquaculture) is neatly divided.
>
> If I were asked to draw a boundary at sea, and if I had good information
> about the shape of the seafloor, I'd imagine that the sea has gone dry
> and a river flows down from the land boundary; let that river be the sea
> boundary. Where that solution is inadequate -- e.g. Bahrain -- drop the
> sea until the two landmasses `kiss', and then run rivers down each side
> from that saddle point.
>
> (One flaw in this `solution' is that the boundaries of The Gambia, for
> example, would likely converge rather close to shore.)
>
> --
> Anton Sherwood