Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Continent marker
Date: May 16, 2001 @ 03:15
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>i like your entire analysis
>>The Asia-Europe boundary markers come as a huge surprise to me.
>>
>>I have always thought that the Ural mountain boundary was just a broad
>>undefined aproximate line, and now there are markers!
>>
>>Where is the Asia-Africa boundary line then? and N - S America?
>
>Asia-Africa: political: Egypt/Israel and Gaza/Egypt boundary.
>Or for a nicer physical line, the suez canal which leaves Sinai in Asia.
>Or seeing Sinai is so symmetric, a nice biscting line N-S down it.
>
>
>N&S America.
>Political <1903: Colombia-Costarica
>>1903 Panama-Colombia
>
>Physical line: Panama canal.
>
>I like the Panama-Colombia line as it hasn't been crossed by a road (yet).
>how could we forget now
>The crest of the Urals and caucuses make a nice phusical line for europe,
>but we might want to put Armenia, if not Azerbaijan in Europe culturally.
>Thus there are near-overlapping but not quite coincident definitions of the
>continent: physical, cultural, linguistic, political, ecological etc.
>
>Remember the Wallace line in Indonesia!
>
>BW
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