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 has perhaps been wondering since julyright 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
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> > > 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.
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> > 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