lol .. wouldn't you just love to have been one of those 2 guys
standing
guard over a rock?
That's just odd. Why would anyone go through so much trouble to
claim it?
Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Gilchrist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:08 AM
Subject: RE: MS-XP OS Drops Java
| I guess if it's more than 12 miles beyond a country's coastline it
| would be
| fair game. I can just see a reality TV show now, "SURVIVOR: The New
| World"
| winner keeps all.
|
| Britain did something similar to this in the Fifties for a little
| piece of
| rock called Rockall way up in the North Sea. They landed a Marine
on
| the
| island who stayed there for a few days I think. I saw a picture it
| was
| *tiny*, maybe 50 feet in diameter.
|
| I found a link!
| http://www.bungalow.com/rockall/
| Check out the pic on the bottom right!
|
| Location
| 230 miles west of Manish Point, North Uist, Scotland.
|
| Rockall is the most isolated part of the British Isles.
|
| Size
| 70 feet high.
| 80 feet by 100 feet wide.
| Rockall has one very small ridge known as Hall's Ledge.
|
| Nearby is Hasselwood Rock which is just visible above sea level in
| calm
| conditions.
|
| Geology
| The rocks of Rockall are from the Tertiary era and are approximately
| 40
| million years old. Rockall is composed of a soda-rich variety of
| granite.
| One dark variety of this rock has been named Rockallite.
|
| Ownership
| The ownership of Rockall has been disputed for centuries with the
| Irish
| Republic, Denmark and Iceland making claims for it. It was
officially
| annexed by Britain in September 1955 when a landing was made by
| helicopter
| from the navy vessel HMS Vidal. It became part of the United
Kingdom
| in
| February 1972 when the Isle of Rockall Act was passed in the UK
| parliament.
|
| In the 1980s, John Ridgeway, the Atlantic rower actually lived on
the
| islet
| for nearly a month to confirm British ownership. It goes without
| saying that
| there are no permanent human inhabitants! Also, Don McLean briefly
| "lived"
| on Hall's Ledge and operated an amateur radio station.
|
| In the summer of 1997 it was briefly occupied by Greenpeace
activists
| who
| declared it the state of Waveland. They replaced the navigational
| beacon
| placed there by the UK government with a solar powered replacement.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:33 AM
| To: CF-Community
| Subject: RE: MS-XP OS Drops Java
|
|
| I've always found international law to be interesting. I wonder what
| the
| rule on this is.
|
| Imagine a volance/earthquake/whatever causes a large island to just
| magically appear in international waters. If a company, like MS,
| lands on it
| first, do they get to keep the island? If not, why not?
|
| Ray
|
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Philip Arnold - ASP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:16 AM
| > To: CF-Community
| > Subject: RE: MS-XP OS Drops Java
| >
| >
| > > MS can do what it wants pretty much. I'm waiting for the day
when
| MS
| > > buys an island and declares itself a country in it's own right.
| >
| > What? Only an island? I'm expect MSWorld, or MSDimension...
| >
| > Philip Arnold
| > Director
| > Certified ColdFusion Developer
| > ASP Multimedia Limited
| > T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
| >
| > "Websites for the real world"
| >
|
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