Ooops! I goofed the URL too, although I did get us to the PCL's Bahrain map
index page. A direct link to the 1980 map is
http://tinyurl.com/6pjvk .
Yes, you did indeed speak of backfilling.
I had not noticed the name "Umm Na'san" on the larger natural island on the
maps. The name "Umm Al Na'san" seem to be applied to the largely artificial
border-station island in the caption to a photo at
http://www.travel-images.com/bahrain.html . This is probably an error by the
author of that page.
In the Google cache of a now-extinct French web site, we find confirmation not
only that the name belongs to the larger island, but also that the photo in
question is that of the artificial border-station island: "La douane se trouve
sur une île artificielle construite sur le détroit qui sépare le Bahreïn du
continent. Sur l'île, il y a une tour avec un restaurant qui offre un panorama
magnifique. Le pont traverse aussi l'île de Umm Al-Na'san qui est une réserve
naturelle."
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:36 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Map site
oops & thanx & yes i mean enlarged by addition of fill
or by backfilling as i finally also said
& i may be able to translate
for whatever help that might be to you
but it appears from both the bahrain maps in the link originally
brought by jesper & at pcl that umm al nasan is only the much
larger island entirely within bahrain about 5km east of the one
that appears to have been enlarged by saudi arabia along the
bhsa maritime border
& to which i believe jesper is & am sure i am referring to
& for which there is no name given on any map i have yet seen
but perhaps i have misunderstood you here
or do you mean you have found reason to believe umm al nasan
is the name of this international island also
however improbably
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> 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@y...>
> 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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