Subject: Re: Continent border<br/>
Date: Feb 23, 2003 @ 19:48<br/>
Author: Francisco &lt;xuax@netvisao.pt&gt; (&quot;Francisco &lt;xuax@...&gt;&quot; &lt;xuax@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-874658514">&quot;Jesper Nielsen&quot; &lt;jesniel@i...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; We have previously discussed land continent borders. The obvious <br/>
 </span></blockquote>one if of course ASEU.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; But what about ASOC?<br/>
&gt; This atlas <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/au.htm">http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/au.htm</a><br/>
&gt; shows IDPG as a land continent border, and I have seen others as <br/>
 </span></blockquote>well.<br/>
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Hi,<br/>
Sorry, I&#39;m new here, I didn&#39;t follow land continent borders <br/>
discussion. Anyway this is my opinion.<br/>
1. IDPG border in Papua Island is, first of all, an artifical, <br/>
illogical border (as many others). It&#39;s not a &quot;normal&quot; political <br/>
border, how can it be a continental one? Remember the ongoing fight <br/>
of the West Papuans against Indonesian rule.<br/>
2. If IDPG is a land continent border (ASOC), what about IDTL?<br/>
3. If the political borders can be land continent borders, then the <br/>
Sinai peninsula is Africa, Anatolia is Europe (or is the European <br/>
side of Turkey is a part of Asia?), and Ceuta & Melilla are Europe <br/>
too. And French Guyana, is Europe or South America?<br/>
<br/>
4. Now a little joke related to this issue. When Portugal and Spain <br/>
were the less developed countries in Europe (kind of European Third <br/>
World) some people used to say that or Europe ends in the Pirenees <br/>
(and Africa begins) or Europe ends in the Atlas (and Africa begins). <br/>
So, the economic development limit was a kind of continental border.<br/>
<br/>
Francisco<br/>
Portugal</div>