There is also the farm that was a German enclave in Belgium -- that
could be a contender. Jesper?
Doug
On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 08:45 AM, acroorca2002 wrote:
> thanx for the tries len
> but why do you think so
>
> you &or brendan may well know some hard facts i need
> but i settled on baarle first because it is substantially urban
> while cooch behar is substantially rural
> so even tho in densest asia as well as more numerous
> the smallest bengali farmsteads still mightnt be so small as the
> smallest house lots in downtown baarle
>
> but besides that
> the bengali claves are notoriously fractal too
> reportedly often involving streams etc
>
> so for both reasons
> i dont see a great likelihood of a real winner of under 220 meters
> geodetic in cooch behar
> not at first glance anyway
> tho perhaps an asterisk taker
>
> but anyway you are certainly right that such a major probability
> needs to be actually exhausted rather than just blown off
> & brendan probably does know at least all the hectarages
> even if not all the other necessary particulars
> so he & we might know at a glance whether there even is a
> serious candidate to detain ourselves over in cooch behar
> before proceeding to compare the baarle candidates
> which i think is where i am still headed anyway
> tho there is always room for course correction if warranted
>
> also maybe brendan will get back to us at the same time about
> his ongoing investigation into whether there is or isnt a second
> border cross in cooch behar too
>
>
> the erstwhile cis farm boundary
> if that is the one you mean
> is presumably out of date
> whatever its length may have been
>
> & the gibraltar example is like penon de velez de la gomera
> only longer
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal"
> <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> > I think if you check with Brendan, he'll find Bangladesh
> enclaves so
> > small that the border around them will beat the border around
> any
> > little piece of Baarle that you might find.
> >
> > There was also the little border around a piece of property in
> one of
> > the CIS states we found (have a map somewhere), and then
> there's the
> > Gibraltar-Spain border which is so short one can walk it in
> fifteen
> > minutes at most.
> >
> > LN
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
> <orc@o...> wrote:
> > > we have already nominated the narrow neck between
> morocco &
> > > spain at penon de velez de la gomera
> > > worlds shortest international dry boundary
> > > & have even made plans to dig it up & reduce it to the
> vanishing
> > > point at high tide
> > > just for the fun of it
> > >
> > > however the esmo border there presumably already
> continues
> > > out to sea delimiting miles of territorial waters in both
> directions
> > >
> > > so the border there is only the landlubbers shortest rather
> than
> > > the actual shortest border in the world
> > >
> > >
> > > the search for the actual shortest tho has led me to baarle
> > >
> > > happily it appears to be another tossup between 2
> candidates
> > > both looking in this case like about 220 meters
> > >
> > > these can be seen in
> > > http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith//baarle/baarlemap.html
> > > as the irregular pink polygon at upper left near the name
> loveren
> > > & the white quadrilateral 2 scrolls down between k12 & k13
> > >
> > > so my questions are
> > > can anyone give more exact border lengths for these 2 claves
> > > or possibly better yet
> > > can anyone find a shorter international border anywhere else
>
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