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Subject: RE: Total number of islands in the world
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 13:19:47 -0000
From: Cartographics <[log in to unmask]>
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How big does a piece of exposed rock have to be before it is classified as
an island?
Richard Dean

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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
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