The correct URL of the 1980 Bahrain map is:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/bahrain.html .
By "compounded," I assume (from your reference to Ellis Island) that you mean
enlarged by the addition of fill. There are photos of part of the King Fahd
Causeway at
http://www.kingfahdbinabdulaziz.com/jpghi/f019.jpg
and at
http://www.kingfahdbinabdulaziz.com/jpghi/f019.jpg .
You can see that there are a number of artificial islands between the five
bridge sections. The island in question is not readily visible in these photos.
However, the web site at
http://www.dawn.com/2005/01/14/int16.htm says "An artificial island was created
halfway across the strait separating the two countries, for customs and
immigration formalities."
..and finally, we find an excellent photo at
http://galen-frysinger.com/middle_east/bahrain28.jpg showing "the center
station" on the causeway. Quite an elaborate set of border stations! Another
web site with a small version of the same photo gives the name of the island as
"Umm Al Na'san." Can anyone translate?
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Map site
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
<jesniel@i...> wrote:
>
http://snack.p.lodz.pl/~bogmilka/sp6nvk/Mapy/strony_map/maps
_maps.htm
>
> has nice maps of Märket Reef, Gibraltar, divided island by
Bahrain etc.
>
> Jesper
this new supposedly
divided island by bahrain
appears to have actually been compounded rather than divided
& largely or entirely compounded by saudi arabia
evidently
rather than by bahrain necessarily at all
& these are real distinctions that are perhaps worth making
for if you compare the 2003 bahrain map given at this site to the
1980 edition of essentially the same cia map also given at pcl
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/bahrain.html
it appears the 1958 bhsa maritime boundary may originally have
just nicked this island
in the same way we have seen the maritime cafr boundary just
nick ile verte
& thus the island appears to have been compounded
somewhat like ellis island was
albeit without any need for a judicial decision in this case
& i am guessing this work must have been done at some time
after the 1980 but before the 1991 edition of the same map also
given here at pcl
now i am not saying nothing at all was added to the bahrain side
for i dont see how an originally single dry bhsa point
if indeed that is all it originally was
could have been extended into a line by any amount of backfilling
yet i do suppose that that is substantially if not precisely what
must have occurred
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