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Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 1:54 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] shortest
international border in the world
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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