Subject: Re: Hawar Islands-Info request<br/>
Date: Nov 22, 2001 @ 05:39<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1028608074">it strikes me as almost inconceivable that any of our present international boundaries <br/>
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of which few to none are more than about 7 centuries old<br/>
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& most are scarcely 1 century old<br/>
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could survive until the next glaciation<br/>
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i can however imagine some to many of them surviving the present phase of global warming<br/>
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& thus projecting maritime boundary termini inland<br/>
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so to say<br/>
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for they would of course always remain perfectly wet <br/>
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but please  anton <br/>
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how can you even be curious about what might happen to our existing boundaries myriads & chiliads of years from now<br/>
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idle curiosity i could understand<br/>
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but this is freakin otiose<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Anton Sherwood &lt;bronto@p...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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&gt; I wonder how many sea boundaries would creep onto land (other than at<br/>
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&gt; their endpoints, i mean) if the sea drops in an ice age.  It seems to me<br/>
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&gt; that for most purposes you&#39;d want the boundary to be in the deepest<br/>
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&gt; water: so that future big ships can navigate in either state, and so<br/>
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&gt; that the shallow water (most useful for aquaculture) is neatly divided.<br/>
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&gt; If I were asked to draw a boundary at sea, and if I had good information<br/>
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&gt; about the shape of the seafloor, I&#39;d imagine that the sea has gone dry<br/>
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&gt; and a river flows down from the land boundary; let that river be the sea<br/>
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&gt; boundary.  Where that solution is inadequate -- e.g. Bahrain -- drop the<br/>
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&gt; sea until the two landmasses `kiss&#39;, and then run rivers down each side<br/>
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&gt; from that saddle point.<br/>
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&gt; (One flaw in this `solution&#39; is that the boundaries of The Gambia, for<br/>
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&gt; example, would likely converge rather close to shore.)<br/>
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&gt; -- <br/>
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&gt; Anton Sherwood </span></blockquote></div>