Subject: Re: Border picture on the money/Neuwerk
Date: Dec 10, 2001 @ 02:07
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Harry ten Veen" <pa8km@a...> wrote:

> > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Harry has perhaps been wondering since july

> 3339

> >

> >

> >

> > > For everybody's correct understanding:

> > > The Wadden Sea is a tidal sea. At low tide it is even possible to walk

> from

> > > the coast to, in this case, the Island Neuwerk and also to Scharhorn.

> One

> > > only has to cross some channels/gully's.

> > > Also horse and carts drive over the (dry) sea-floor. Deutsche Post

> > > transports the mail on a daily bases in this way.

> > > This also means that the coastline is defined as being at normal mean

> tide.

>

>

> > mean low tide is normally what defines it so i gather that is what you

> mean here also

>

> No, when I wrote "mean tide" I ment the tide, like halfway between low and

> high tide. So that would be the mean water-depth. (gemiddelde zeestand of -

> waterstand in Dutch).

>

> OK, when mean low tide defines the "coastline" than many parts os the

> Waddenzee should be called Waddenland. Because the seefloor is dry than.

>

> gl

> Harry ten Veen



right harry & it is along the lowest lines of this sometimes dry land that nederland would normally then connect baselines & project its sovereign territorial sea another 12 nautical miles beyond tho there has recently been the question here as to whether the entire area has in fact been fully projected