Dear Colleagues,
I have the pleasure of forwarding Professor Victor Prescott's
Boundaries Quiz to you. Please remember to send you answers to
Victor at:
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Best of luck!
Clive
Dear Colleagues, I have the honour to send
you the International Boundaries Quiz. Since
this is the first one not produced by the staff of
IBRU they will now have a chance to compete.
Entries close on 10 January 2000. Answers
should be sent to me and the highest score will
win. If more than one person achieves the
highest score the first one received will be
judged to have won. The maximum number of
marks available is 19. Only one mark will be
given for each answer. There will be no
attempt to assess half marks. Of course I will
engage in correspondence if any of the answers
are challenged and grovel if they are
challenged successfully! It is possible that in
retrospect one question will be thought of as
being tricky. However there is a clear
indication in the quiz as to how that question
should be answered.
Clive and Martin have offered a forthcoming
IBRU publication dealing with 'Boundaries
under stress' to the winner.
May I wish you all good luck.
THE PENULTIMATE CHRISTMAS
BOUNDARY QUIZ OF THE 20TH
CENTURY
1 Who made the following incorrect
prediction?
For at least 1500 miles does that huge,
unbroken wall of peak and snowfield shut off
India from Tibet or China ... this is indeed our
ideal of a typical barrier wall, a barrier such as
no device of man no devilish ingenuity of
invention, can assail with any hope of a
successful issue
2 In terms of their evolution which of the
following boundaries is the exception?
The Anglo-German boundary of Walvis Bay,
1911
The Anglo-Portuguese boundary between
Angola and Northern Rhodesia, 1905
The Anglo-French boundary between the
colonies of Lagos and Dahomey, 1889
The Anglo-American boundary through the
Strait of Juan de Fuca, 1872
3 Which phrase in the treaty between
Argentina and Chile in 1881 caused a
major dispute over its interpretation.
4 The coast of the Caspian Sea is shared by
five countries. What is the highest number of
countries to share the coast of a lake?
5 Which is the only country that has been
forced to accept a territorial sea boundary with
its neighbour?
6 Why did Norway define its claim in
Antarctica quite differently from the claims of
Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New
Zealand and the United Kingdom?
7 In which borderland are the Rohingyas
located?
8 What change to the United Kingdom's
boundaries was announced on 21 July 1997?
9 Can you name five pairs of countries
that have delimited seabed boundaries more
than 200 nautical miles from their baselines?
10 What political events might explain the
doubling of people to 700,000 crossing into
Syria >from Lebanon in 1971?
11 Which town in the Balkans was created as
a 'self-governing neutral district' on 5 March
1999 by a panel of international arbitrators?
12 Who was Caprivi and in which territorial
transfer was he involved?
13 Can you rearrange the following sets of
letters to identify six contributors to the
literature of international boundaries before
1939? Fresh oahu; Leadpaller; tzarle; gobsg;
le drain; clean
14 Can you identify three rules in Part II
Section 2 and Part IV of the 1982 Law of the
Sea Convention that were created with one
particular country in mind?
15 Which were the two judgements which
created the concept of the natural prolongation
of the continental margin and which might be
considered to have ended the operation of that
concept within 200 nautical miles of
baselines?
16 In terms of their location why is one of the
following islands or groups exceptional?
Channel Islands, Hawar Islands, Ko Samui,
Megisti Island.
17 The boundary then follows the Agnes River
to its first left bank tributary, which is
followed for 5.2 km to the intersection of the
river with parallel 15°34'S. From this
intersection the boundary follows the parallel
to its first intersection with the municipal
limits of Bullimer and then follows that
municipal limit to its second intersection with
the parallel and then the parallel to the coast.
How many ambiguities can you find in this
boundary delimitation which might complicate
life for the demarcation commissioners?
18 The territory of which countries straddle
the International Date Line?
19 Which were the parties that signed the
last international treaty dealing with
conflicting territorial claims in the nineteenth
century?
JRV and DF Prescott
East Brighton
Victoria 3187
AUSTRALIA
Phone 61 3 9592 5156
Fax 61 3 9593 1624
JRV and DF Prescott
East Brighton
Victoria 3187
AUSTRALIA
Phone 61 3 9592 5156
Fax 61 3 9593 1624
JRV and DF Prescott
East Brighton
Victoria 3187
AUSTRALIA
Phone 61 3 9592 5156
Fax 61 3 9593 1624
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