On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:42 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 6 April 2010 17:29, Igor Brejc <igor.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does it? > > From a legal point of view. > > Legally the border between NSW and Vic is the southern bank of the > Murray River, it was set this way to try and end border disputes > between the states, however over time the river moves and caused other > disputes. > I don't know about NSW and Vic case, but in the above cases the official borders were set as exact geo points, which were in that time based on the river flow. But when the river moved, it did not affect the borders. Sometimes the countries then renegotiate a new border, but that's not always the case. Igor
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