really paul
i can see how the eu might veto jespers hans island pipedream
even if canada & denmark didnt
& i can see how he figures he can divide all islands however he
likes or pretends
but where did you learn of this jamaican claim to navassa
thats a new one on all of us
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "kontikipaul"
<contikipaul@h...> wrote:
> Great List.
>
>
> As others have pointed out it missed Hans Island which, by
memory,
> was first pointed out to this group via one of those CIA fact
sheets
> then Jesper found a few maps actually locating the island.
> More on Hans Island later as I found out some weird info on
it.
>
> The only other dispute I can think of that isn't listed is that
> the US owned Navassa Island is claimed by both Haiti and
Jamaica.
> That Haitian fishermen camp there and its claimed by Haiti are
all
> thats listed.
>
>
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Artur Kroc
<kroc@i...>
> > wrote:
> > > http://geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/factbook/fields/2070.html
> >
> > nice shooting artur
> >
> > this is practically the entire pandemonium in a single scatter
> > shot of our global pandominium
> >
> > & nice to see hans island on dedk missing from the list too
> > tho i could think of no other complete omission in the entire
> > world
> >
> >
> > moreover
> > since many of these disputes & nondisputes do or could
involve
> > the tripoints
> > such as arbruy brgyve etc etc etc
> > i was most interested to also find only a single tripoint in the
> > entire world actually mentioned here by name
> > namely benin niger nigeria our bjneng
> > & mentioned 3 times of course or once under each country
> >
> > yet the state department kind of blew it after all
> > since they mention this point only to make the point that it is
> > undemarcated
> > while we already know from brownlie that it stands on the
> > median line of a river
> > at its intersection with a cairn monumented geodetic line
> > & thus would be better characterized not as any sort of a
dispute
> > at all but as a perfectly normal indirectly demarcated wetpoint
> >
> > so with those 2 really remarkable exceptions
> > i think you probably have complete coverage of the borders
here
> > & complete oversight of the tripoints