Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] continents
Date: Aug 23, 2000 @ 23:29
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>No one here is going to redefine the continents. I still think
>it is a more interesting question to find out the boundries of
>the actual ones.
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>Questions like are Iceland and Columbia in North America and
>is Kazakstan in Europe are far more interesting, IMO. (I've
>also straddled the plate rift in Iceland, BTW :-))
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>A while back I did a search to find the "official" definition
>of Europe. Interesting is the nummber of different "official"
>opinions I found. Even the best of them were vague in the
>critial area south of the Urals, among other problems. I even
>found a couple different places claiming to be the "geographical
>center of Europe". I never did find anything with an ISO or the
>like stamp on it though. Does anyone here know if there is
>an "official" definition of the continents and who the
>"office" is?
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>Failing that, playing around with the boundries of Europe can
>be quite interesting on all sides, especially under the
>(necessary IMO) assumption that you use solely geophysical
>as opposed to geopolitical features.
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>Finally, in regards to multinational junctions on the continents,
>has the UN (or someone) formally decided that there are no
>national boundries in Antarctica? Last I heard, and it was
>a while ago, Americans did not recogise this, but that does not
>mean they do not exist (with a really big multinational point
>at the south pole) because alot of countries _did_ recognize
>them. I know TCC recognised this as well. Like I said, though,
>it was quite a long time ago when I last looked into this.
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>Cheers,
>Randy
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