Subject: Re: high points<br/>
Date: Jan 21, 2005 @ 04:19<br/>
Author: L. A. Nadybal (&quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1057388421">But that view couldn&#39;t be held consistently.  For instance, lets<br/>
assume for a moment that the highest point in France was on<br/>
Guadeloupe.  That would only apply so long as France was in one of the<br/>
periods when Guadeloupe was a &quot;departement&quot;.  It isn&#39;t always a<br/>
departement, and is classified as something akin to an overseas<br/>
territory from time to time.  Same with St. Pierre et Miquelon - the<br/>
French change their legal views as to what it is in relation to<br/>
Metropolitan France.  So your premise holds only so long as the<br/>
official view is that places like St. Pierre aren&#39;t de jure<br/>
incorporated into Metropolitan France and wouldn&#39;t hold if the place<br/>
were at the time considered more like a colony.<br/>
<br/>
LN <br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@u...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;    From: &quot;Flynn, Kevin&quot; &lt;flynnk@r...&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;Subject: RE: Boundaries and Highpoints<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;I would suggest they would not be a part of the parent state. It seems<br/>
&gt; &gt;absurd to say the highest point in Germany is in Africa.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; But Australia&#39;s is on a tiny island in the Southern Ocean...<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; It is a little known fact that the highest point on Australian<br/>
Territory is <br/>
&gt; actually Mawson&#39;s Peak. Located on Heard Island, Mawson&#39;s Peak is 2745 <br/>
&gt; metres high, and forms the summit of an active volcano called Big Ben. <br/>
&gt; Heard Island is well south of the Australian continent (73°30&#39; East,<br/>
53°05&#39; <br/>
&gt; South), approaching the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean.<br/>
There <br/>
&gt; are higher elevations and mountains in the Australian Antarctic<br/>
Territory.<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/highmtns.htm#extter">http://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/highmtns.htm#extter</a><br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Dr Brendan Whyte<br/>
&gt; Assistant Map Curator<br/>
&gt; ERC Library<br/>
&gt; University of Melbourne<br/>
&gt; Vic 3010<br/>
&gt; AUSTRALIA<br/>
&gt; bwhyte@u... </span></blockquote></div>