Subject: high points<br/>
Date: Jan 21, 2005 @ 03:03<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-645694672">But would you discount the northern Territory and the Australian Capital <br/>
territory because they are territories like the Heard and MacDonald Island <br/>
Territory is?<br/>
Or would you discount Tasmania because it&#39;s not part of Mainland Australia?<br/>
When we say &quot;Australia&quot; do we mean the country or the continent without any <br/>
other islands?<br/>
It&#39;s a tricky question...<br/>
And the original example was Germany. Does this mean if we say &#39;portugal&#39; <br/>
we count or don&#39;t count its overseas provinces (like East Timor, Goa, etc <br/>
once were?). Are the Azores part of Portugal by your definition?<br/>
<br/>
Brendan<br/>
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At 02:37 AM 21/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt;I think the distinction I was making was that when someone says &quot;What&#39;s the<br/>
&gt;highest point in Germany?&quot; they mean right there in the country. I wouldn&#39;t<br/>
&gt;send them to Africa to find it. Same here with Heard Island. While it is a<br/>
&gt;territory under Australian authority, it isn&#39;t &quot;in&quot; Australia. If the<br/>
&gt;question were &quot;What is the highest point under Australian rule.&quot; one could<br/>
&gt;answer Mawson&#39;s Peak. But if I wanted to know the highest point in<br/>
&gt;Australia, I would look in Australia itself.<br/>
&gt; </span></blockquote></div>