Subject: Re: Continental Borders<br/>
Date: Feb 16, 2002 @ 18:59<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-416501512">dade city fl<br/>
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hi franc<br/>
<br/>
we have discussed this but your input is timely & gets to the whole <br/>
question better than ever before<br/>
<br/>
i think it is fair to sum up our previous tries as follows<br/>
<br/>
we found no official indices nor any compelling reasons to distinguish <br/>
the several socalled continents & their divisions<br/>
<br/>
however <br/>
& just to underscore the artificiality of the entire matter <br/>
we did find that there is some consensus that the panama & suez canals <br/>
do the job best <br/>
as do the watercourses generally thereafter<br/>
& thirdly the international divides as in the aegean<br/>
& finally the heights of land as in the urals<br/>
<br/>
the trickiest part of all has appeared to fall in the brief <br/>
segment between the ural river & the ural mountains<br/>
since the river doesnt fall precisely from the divide<br/>
& there it seems no objective standard can be found for drawing that <br/>
short sector of the line<br/>
but it hardly matters except among us enthusiasts<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
actually i stopped at the first computer i could find to give a report <br/>
as soon as i realized that the hamlet of lacoochee in the <br/>
withlacoochee forest has evidently been merged with the nearby hamlet <br/>
of trilby to form trilacoochee<br/>
<br/>
anyway it seemed important & i guess thats right<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;vandiest2000&quot; &lt;franc@v...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; Hallo All,<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I am new to this group, and the question I have has probably been <br/>
&gt; asked before.<br/>
&gt; Are the continental borders defined, i.e. Europa/Asia<br/>
&gt; border across the Ural Mountains, north to south<br/>
&gt; further along the islands of Greece and the turkish main land<br/>
&gt; How about the bits inbetween these ? Ural to greece-turky ?<br/>
&gt; Is the egyptian Synai part of Africa or Asia ?<br/>
&gt; Like to hear your ideas or pointers to where I can get this sort of <br/>
&gt; information ?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Regards<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Franc Van Diest<br/>
&gt; franc@v...<br/>
&gt; The Netherlands </span></blockquote></div>