hi anton peter &al
oh what fun it is to be with you here
greetings
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--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk
<smaardijk@y...>" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "anton_zeilinger
> <anton_zeilinger@h...>" <anton_zeilinger@h...> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > i imagine they were considered in the sense that certain
points
> > > upon their perimeters were designated as turn points
> > > & i imagine they were ignored in the sense that a maritime
> > > boundary is then evidently allowed to perform the absurdity
of
> > > cutting straight across dry land
> > > without distributing that land between the parties
> > > but only the waters surrounding that land
> >
> > YES! I think that's the solution! Great! As you say, only the
> > surrounding water is divided by the boundary whereas when
it
> crosses
> > land, it becomes meaningless in the way that land is NOT
divided,
> > only the surrounding water!
>
>
> Yes, that must be it, I agree. The straight line across land is
then
> reduced to be merely auxiliary for the straight line across water
> (i.e. the maritime boundary).
>
>
> [....]
>
>
> > > but anyway
> > > if something that looks like a land boundary in one light &
like
> a
> > > coastal boundary in another light
> > > but isnt really either one
> > > is hard to imagine
> > > then just think of it as a wet&dry reversal of one of those old
> > > allocational boundaries for divvying up islands
> > > long before the days of eez boundaries etc
> > > & which still appear on many maps of the pacific as various
> fairly
> > > regular polygons
> > > but which are actually meaningless as water boundaries
>
> Sometimes these old "allocational boundaries" get promoted
to
> maritime ones. RUUS springs to mind here (with all the
difficulties
> that followed the adoption of the old 1867 line here).
>
>
> > >
> > > well here it is just the opposite
> > >
> > > a dry line that is meaningless for divvying up dry land & that
> only
> > > has meaning in relation to the surrounding maritime
territory
> > >
> > > very weird & possibly unique but thats my new guess
> > >
> >
> > thx, and congrats on this guess, I think that's how it goes!
>
> Congratulations from me, too.
>
> Peter S.