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Subject: Re: Fantasy Islands
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:20:41 GMT
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The South Pacific questions are not easy but I would not say "imponderable."
http://www.iho.shom.fr/publicat/free/files/S23_1953.pdf
gives rigorous definitions of the world's oceans and seas. I'm really not ambitious enough to download bathymetry data and get an estimate for the volume of any of them. Getting area estimates would not be so hard but I'm not ambitious enough for that either.
Joe McCollum
FIA
Knoxville TN 37919