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Re: [Fwd: Re: Total number of islands in the world]]
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Total number of islands in the world]
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:57:52 -0500
From: Roger L Payne <[log in to unmask]>
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By the way, all of the islands in the world are not named, and until they
are all digitized, there is no way to know the answer to the question
unless "named islands" is the criterion.

Roger L. Payne
Manager, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
703.648.4544


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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Total number of islands in the world
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:34:58 -0600
From: Mike Flannigan <[log in to unmask]>
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Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if Canada had more than
300,000 islands all by itself.


Mike Flannigan


> Subject: Re: Total number of islands in the world
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:48:08 -0500
> From: "Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>
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> There are four replys to this question given below.
> Moderator
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> The Alexandria Digital Gazetteer lists 70,088.
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> http://collections.alexandria.ucsb.edu/adl_gazetteer/metadata.html
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> Phil Hoehn, Map Librarian
> San Francisco -- [log in to unmask]
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