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Subject: Alexandria Digital Gazetteer -- Total number of islands in the
world]
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:53:43 -0600
From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: American Geographical Society Library
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Did anyone notice that the Alexandria Digital Gazetteer
(http://collections.alexandria.ucsb.edu/adl_gazetteer/metadata.html )
lists that there are 3 continents? Have things really changed that much
since I was in school? :-P
Angie
Johnnie D. Sutherland wrote:
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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]>
> Organization: Southwestern Bell Internet Services
> To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[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.
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>
> Mike Flannigan
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>> 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.
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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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