Subject: Re: Map site
Date: Jan 30, 2005 @ 05:36
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> The correct URL of the 1980 Bahrain map is:Island) that you mean
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/bahrain.html .
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> By "compounded," I assume (from your reference to Ellis
> enlarged by the addition of fill. There are photos of part of theKing Fahd
> Causeway athttp://www.kingfahdbinabdulaziz.com/jpghi/f019.jpg
> and atbetween the five
> http://www.kingfahdbinabdulaziz.com/jpghi/f019.jpg .
> You can see that there are a number of artificial islands
> bridge sections. The island in question is not readily visible inthese photos.
>island was created
> However, the web site at
> http://www.dawn.com/2005/01/14/int16.htm says "An artificial
> halfway across the strait separating the two countries, forcustoms and
> immigration formalities.""the center
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> ..and finally, we find an excellent photo at
> http://galen-frysinger.com/middle_east/bahrain28.jpg showing
> station" on the causeway. Quite an elaborate set of borderstations! Another
> web site with a small version of the same photo gives thename of the island as
> "Umm Al Na'san." Can anyone translate?http://snack.p.lodz.pl/~bogmilka/sp6nvk/Mapy/strony_map/maps
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> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:46 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Map site
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...> wrote:
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> _maps.htmthe
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> > has nice maps of Märket Reef, Gibraltar, divided island by
> Bahrain etc.
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> > Jesper
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> this new supposedly
> divided island by bahrain
> appears to have actually been compounded rather than divided
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> & largely or entirely compounded by saudi arabia
> evidently
> rather than by bahrain necessarily at all
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> & these are real distinctions that are perhaps worth making
> for if you compare the 2003 bahrain map given at this site to
> 1980 edition of essentially the same cia map also given at pclhave
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/bahrain.html
> it appears the 1958 bhsa maritime boundary may originally
> just nicked this islandalso
> in the same way we have seen the maritime cafr boundary just
> nick ile verte
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> & thus the island appears to have been compounded
> somewhat like ellis island was
> albeit without any need for a judicial decision in this case
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> & i am guessing this work must have been done at some time
> after the 1980 but before the 1991 edition of the same map
> given here at pclside
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> now i am not saying nothing at all was added to the bahrain
>backfilling
> 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
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> yet i do suppose that that is substantially if not precisely what
> must have occurred
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