oz2 for "Old Zealand" or "Occidental (West) of
Zealand"?
Though I'm not sure if AU was settled before NZ anyway
-Mike K.
--- m donner <
maxivan82@...> wrote:
> this punctoscopy begins by looking like a no brainer
> but is in practice not so simple
> & brings us at length to a crisis as well as an
> impasse
>
>
> to begin with i actually had to invent the freakin
> diglyphs
> since australia is traditionally trigraphic rather
> than digraphic
> as in nsw qld vic etc
>
> & doing this wasnt at all difficult
> but it was the first such necessity & invention in
> the first 10 tries
> & is noteworthy for that reason at least
>
>
> the obvious tripoints & glyphs
> all of which practically volunteer themselves
> are
> au2nsqlsa
> nssavi
> ntqlsa
> ntsawa
>
> but in addition
> because oz uses the same system of state & federal
> maritime territorial
> allocations as the usa
> there are the following offshore tripoints at the
> 3mile limits
> aunsql
> aunsvi
> auntql
> auntwa
> ausavi
> ausawa
>
> & finally
> because there really is a short tasmania victoria
> land boundary on a rock in
> bass strait
> as mentioned in message 1008
> that line must also be presumed to produce at least
> one extra pair of
> maritime tripoints 3nm seaward of its ends
> autavie
> autaviw
> & possibly more if there are any other places where
> islands allocated to
> these states by the seaward continuations of that
> same line fall within 6nm
> of each other
>
> but determining this would need much better maps
> than i have
>
>
> anyway there you have at least a full dozen ozzie
> tripoints
> or 3 times as many as are usually recognized
>
>
> however
> now that the allocation of seas between federal &
> subdivisional entities has
> finally been acknowledged as a topological fact &
> taken into account in the
> multipoint census of any given country
> i am reminded that
> altho the previously completed
> ad2 andorra
> af2 afghanistan
> am2 armenia &
> at2 austria
> are landlocked & therefore not subject to any such
> maritime law review
> nevertheless
> the seas of the previously inventoried countries
> ad2 uae
> ag2 antigua barbuda
> al2 albania
> ao2 angola &
> ar2 argentina
> were never properly fathomed in this regard
> oops
> & thus represent 5 new outstanding loose ends
> or rather the only loose ends we have up to this
> point alphabetically
> besides those simply requiring better maps to tie
> down
> now that the andorra quadripoint has been so happily
> settled
>
> & it is a bit of a crisis because my ignorance of
> these internal maritime
> allocations is so great
> indeed except for a very few places like oz & nafta
>
>
> & the promised impasse has to do not with oz but the
> next country in the
> sequence
> az2 azerbaijan
> the 11th & last country with an iso glyph beginning
> with the letter a
>
> but this play stoppage is only because i havent yet
> found a map or even a
> comprehensive list of azerbaijans variously
> described & variously counted
> maybe 60 or 70 major subdivisional parts
> hahahaha
>
> so near & yet so far
> making it a real challenge just to complete the
> letter a
> but we shall see
>
>
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