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Thread ID: 142510	2016-07-14 23:24:00	Paging our Navigators.	B.M. (505)	PC World Chat

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1423081	2016-07-14 23:24:00	When reading a Chart or World Map we have lines of Latitude and Longitude and even Time Zones on some, but where do you find where two seas meet? e.g. Where does the Coral Sea meet the Pacific Ocean or the Arfura Sea meet the Timor Sea? :thanks	B.M. (505)
1423082	2016-07-14 23:37:00	Wikipedia would be the first port of call......en.wikipedia.org	Terry Porritt (14)
1423083	2016-07-15 01:58:00	Yes I did call in there but didn’t anchor for long as the natives only speak gibberish. However, I did find humour in their definition of the Southern Ocean which seems to have the Northern edge between 35°S and 60°S. :eek: “Half of the votes supported a definition of the ocean's northern limit at 60°S (with no land interruptions at this latitude), with the other 14 votes cast for other definitions, mostly 50°S, but a few for as far north as 35°S”. I’m not sure I want to live in the Southern Ocean, but with the Ice Age approaching I may have no option. :D Plus, they had never heard of the Coral Sea or Arfusa Sea.	B.M. (505)
1423084	2016-07-15 02:10:00	but where do you find where two seas meet? LOL, apart from things like the dead sea, black sea, it's all one ocean really. I doubt sailors get all excited when they cross the imaginary line....or notice especially.	pctek (84)
1423085	2016-07-15 03:54:00	LOL, apart from things like the dead sea, black sea, it's all one ocean really. I doubt sailors get all excited when they cross the imaginary line....or notice especially. Well maybe you can explain why the "Powers that Be" found it fit to name so many of them without having much of a clue where they were exactly? :D	B.M. (505)
1423086	2016-07-15 07:57:00	Surely it's convenient to do so. Yo can't just say we are in the sea.	Cicero (40)
1423087	2016-07-15 08:24:00	Yes, but most Countries have a reasonably accurate idea where their boundaries are so you've some idea where someone is. And Air Space is reasonably accurately defined. I Just wonder if the Coral Sea adjourns the Sea of Tranquility? Truth be known the Sea of Tranquility is far more accurately defined. :D	B.M. (505)
1423088	2016-07-15 10:48:00	May your troubled mind be fruitful. Although how doubt it will be.	Cicero (40)
1423089	2016-07-16 04:11:00	Obviously when seas were first named there were no fixed terrestrial points to mark boundaries, unlike on land. With GPS it would be possible to put lines of anchored buoys to mark agreed boundaries :clap Maybe the disputes in the South China sea will help to fix some sea boundaries there in some way or other. My old mate Capt Ron Hovenden RN (RIP) would have sorted out the Chinks when he patrolled the area in the 1930s shooting up pirates.	Terry Porritt (14)
1423090	2016-07-16 05:57:00	May your troubled mind be fruitful. Although how doubt it will be. Cic, there is more than one “Troubled Mind” and the others keep troubling mine. :) You see a couple of weeks ago a group of us were in Australia holidaying at Hervey Bay and whilst sipping a G&T sitting on the balcony of our apartment admiring the beautiful view a mate comes out with “What Ocean is that out there” and the conversation progressed like this? Ahh, I think it’s the Coral Sea. Well where’s the Pacific Ocean? Ahhhh, well the South Pacific is further down south. Well where does the Coral Sea join the South Pacific? Ummm, I think it’s about 25°S Well where’s the Tasman Sea? Good question, where the hell is the Tasman Sea and so it went on with the Gin bottles Plimsoll line taking a hell of a hiding. To make matters worse, since we returned home he has asked me a number of times if I’ve found out yet? Clearly I haven’t and aren’t confident of doing so. However, I draw comfort from the fact that having asked on here nobody came up with “You silly old bastard why don’t you look in your “Notice to Mariners”, it’s all in there”, but then I wouldn’t know where to find that either now. :lol:	B.M. (505)
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