- Fly river
Thinking about the subject of straight borders, something that I have wondered about for a long time came up again. The island of New Guinea is divided by a
May 01, 2001 @ 09:26 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fly river
Victor Prescott s book should have the details. you can buy copies from him. Email j.prescott@geography.unimelb.edu.au and ask for his Map of Mainland Asia by
May 01, 2001 @ 11:08 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
- Re: Fly river
I should have searched more thoroughly first and asked then. The boundary treaty (an astonishingly short one, but then again this boundary is not too
May 01, 2001 @ 12:20 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fly river
peter are you kiddin it is good to see you anyway ... do you mean the guessing wasnt as much fun as the searching or the discovering & what a rare treat
May 01, 2001 @ 15:50 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fly river
Sorry to inform you of this, but the Papua New Guinea-Indonesia boundary is not completely straight even when you discount Fly River. Yes, there are two
May 01, 2001 @ 16:16 - Arif Samad (Arif Samad <fHoiberg@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fly river
... no problem pet good for a dab of contrast value & we love rehabilitating everything here as it happens my own life was once actually saved by devils
May 01, 2001 @ 16:18 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fly river
peter are you kiddin it is good to see you anyway ... do you mean the guessing wasnt as much fun as the searching or the discovering & what a rare treat
May 01, 2001 @ 18:07 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fly river
... no problem pet good for a dab of contrast value & we love rehabilitating everything here as it happens my own life was once actually saved by devils
May 01, 2001 @ 18:08 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
- Re: Fly river
Don t be sorry, Arif. I don t like straight boundaries more than other ones, and anyway, there is more of a story to it when it is not a perfectly straight
May 01, 2001 @ 21:29 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fly river
Sorry, Frontiers of Asian and southeast Asia. which covers Afghanistan through to Indonesia-Australian and PNg-Austrlaian boundaries. Map of Mainland Asia
May 02, 2001 @ 00:00 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fly river
(HMS Fly). I wonder what the ship was named after... It was probablty small, and black ,and darted about annoying Her Majesty s enemies, landing in their ice
May 02, 2001 @ 00:12 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fly river
the 2 sovereign divas themselves actually boogie forth in plain view ... Yep, nothing worse than flopping your full power on the table in front of other
May 02, 2001 @ 00:19 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
- Re: Fly river
Thanks a lot, Brendan! Not only have you answered the question why the Fly became a boundary (headhunters have always been a problem in this area, and
May 02, 2001 @ 06:45 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fly river
Yes, what i meant was it was easier for the Fly to be on the border, and so the whole of the river was then accessible for British subjects to enter and follow
May 04, 2001 @ 04:48 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
- glenelg river etc
so from what you indicate brendan it appears the glenelg actually does run in both directions how many rivers are there that can back up such a preposterous
May 04, 2001 @ 15:04 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] glenelg river etc
From a careful re-reading of Brendan s posting I don t see why you think the river flows in both directions. Brendan DESCRIBED it starting at the mouth and
May 04, 2001 @ 15:17 - David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] glenelg river etc
you are right
it was only because i was rereading it in both directions
other rivers & streams of this rare type appear to include
aa france
afa
May 04, 2001 @ 16:42 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
- Re: glenelg river etc
... Ha! What a marvellous list! Did you compile it yourself (and if so, how?), or did you find it somewhere? Smiling broadly, Grant
May 04, 2001 @ 19:39 - granthutchison@cs.com (granthutchison@...)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: glenelg river etc
thanx pal yes i did just put it together now mostly from memory but several of the more obscure items i found only in the palindromicon by jeff grant word
May 04, 2001 @ 21:10 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)