1. Guinness Book of Records
    Just wondering: would the Guinness Book of Records have anything one borders? If so, they could have: - the shortest border (could that be Gibraltar?) - the
    Nov 25, 2001 @ 18:42 - Harry ten Veen ("Harry ten Veen" <pa8km@...>)
  2. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Guinness Book of Records
    Translated for GBoR Danish verision 1995: There are 319 national boundaries in the world. The continent with the most is Africa, having 109. Of the
    Nov 25, 2001 @ 20:40 - Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen ("Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
  3. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Guinness Book of Records
    Tnx Jesper. In newer editions China should have one border less (Hong Kong). So now we have: number of b. (319) highest number of b. per continent (Africa=109)
    Nov 25, 2001 @ 21:06 - Harry ten Veen ("Harry ten Veen" <pa8km@...>)
  4. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Guinness Book of Records
    Check also http://home.worldonline.dk/~jesniel/forening/fakta.html Writing that N-S Korean border is the least busiest, I would like to know if there are any
    Nov 25, 2001 @ 21:12 - Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen ("Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
  5. Re: Guinness Book of Records
    well i have seen all the answers & comments & it is all very interesting but i had thought grant & i would be sandcastling the already truly shortest boundary
    Nov 25, 2001 @ 23:20 - orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
  6. Re: Guinness Book of Records
    Here s the URL (courtesy of Marcel) showing the Morcccan/Spanish sandspit crossed by the *real* shortest international border in the world:
    Nov 25, 2001 @ 23:46 - Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  7. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Guinness Book of Records
    ... Two less (Hong Kong and Macao). -- Manfred Härtel mailto:Manfred.Haertel@rz-online.de http://rz-home.de/mhaertel
    Nov 26, 2001 @ 20:26 - Manfred Haertel (Manfred Haertel <Manfred.Haertel@...>)
  8. Re: Guinness Book of Records
    Ever since I was small, I wondered about that strange tripoint at the sea, or the point where China, North Corea, and Russia come together. Later I saw better
    Nov 26, 2001 @ 20:51 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  9. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Guinness Book of Records
    Decent libraries should have 1:50,000 maps of the tri, from a Korean war printing of maps of Korea. The ChRu border follows a watershed/crest to the tumen
    Nov 26, 2001 @ 23:00 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
  10. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Guinness Book of Records
    Found another border in the Dutch 1987 edition: Most defiladet [is that a proper English word?] border: The Iron Curtain (1380 km long) which separates
    Nov 29, 2001 @ 18:40 - Harry ten Veen ("Harry ten Veen" <pa8km@...>)
  11. Re: Guinness Book of Records
    ... (...)The last of the 55.000 SM-70 [?] weapons was removed on 30 november 1984 (...) This is the so-called Selbstschussapparat, or Self-actuating missile
    Nov 29, 2001 @ 18:50 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  12. Re: Guinness Book of Records
    I have seen the total land border of the Russian Federation given as 14,500 km (and sea boundary of 38,800 km) (www.ehis.navy.mil/onrnews/dorman/CDONEW22.htm)
    Nov 29, 2001 @ 19:35 - johnfrancisgriffiths@hotmail.com (johnfrancisgriffiths@...)
  13. Re: Guinness Book of Records
    Q: Is it possible to describe the size of your problem, how many kilometers of borders there are in Russia for example? KRAVCHENKO: As far as the length of the
    Nov 29, 2001 @ 19:46 - johnfrancisgriffiths@hotmail.com (johnfrancisgriffiths@...)
  14. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Guinness Book of Records
    Does anyone know how much of Russia s sea boundary adjoins the US? (Alaska, including the Aleutian islands?) I would suspect that figure would be pretty close
    Nov 29, 2001 @ 19:50 - jamatotest (jamatotest <jamato@...>)
  15. Re: Guinness Book of Records
    well not really because the long zigzag line you perhaps mean which is usua= lly shown between russia & the usa on maps is really only the international = date
    Nov 30, 2001 @ 02:03 - orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)