Thanks.that makes perfect sense to me ..although I do maintain
that no place should have the same name as another place(to avoid
possible confusion) but I also realize that that is too sensible a
thing to do, and will not occur in my brief lifespan....Thanks
again ...raedwulf
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "raedwulf16"
> <raedwulf16@y...> wrote:
> > hi just for fun,,,does anyone know why there are two islands in
> > Italy...one off the east coast and one off the west coast with

the

> > same name.. PIANOSA??? www.pianosa.net/ cartina-di-
> > pianosa.htm www.ciaogargano.it/.../
> > it_tur_trem_pianosa.html
>
> what do you mean by why
>
> likely they are both just flat islands close enough to italy to

have

> each been named flat island in the italian language of the time in
> which they were named
> independently & without relation to each other
>
> other flat italian islands go by the name of isola piana
> using the more usual modern form of the italian word for flat
>
> 20 islands in the usa are also named flat island
> 11 of them scattered around alaska
> etc etc