The British Isles Inside Borneo


	The British Isles Inside Borneo

JohnWaterman

8-28-2007 5:17 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0f78f84e-45eb-410a-b672-456708f4f25e/2CDE0DF9-76D8-400A-8532-DFCD40938D51/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/169-the-british-isles-inside-borneo/" href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/169-the-british-isles-inside-borneo/" style="font-size: 11px;">strangemaps.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/169-the-british-isles-inside-borneo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/strangemaps.wordpress.com/img/FEE6A9EE-6E2A-4F9D-B3EC-DFC68810D02B" alt="map-1.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/169-the-british-isles-inside-borneo/"><P>Preceded only by faraway <STRONG>Greenland</STRONG> (2.130.800 sq. km, 822.706 sq. mi.) and nearby <STRONG>New Guinea</STRONG> (785.753 sq. km, 303.381 sq. mi.), <STRONG>Borneo</STRONG> is the third-largest island in the world (748.168 sq. km, 288.869 sq. mi.) That’s a somewhat surprising accolade for this low-key South East Asian island with an institutionally split personality. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/169-the-british-isles-inside-borneo/">The two main British Isles are a bit further down the list of largest islands. <STRONG>Great Britain</STRONG> (218.595 sq. km, 84.400 sq. mi.) still is the eighth-largest</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/169-the-british-isles-inside-borneo/"><STRONG>Ireland</STRONG> (81.638 sq. km, 31.521 sq. mi.), i.e. the Republic plus Ulster (the British-governed northern part) is the world’s 20th-largest island, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/169-the-british-isles-inside-borneo/">19th-century naturalist and explorer <STRONG>Alfred Russel Wallace</STRONG> included this map in his</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/169-the-british-isles-inside-borneo/"><EM>The Malay Archipelago</EM>, comparing the size of the British Isles with that of Borneo to give them an idea of the vastness of the place. The British Isles are shown in their normal projection (north up) while Borneo is tilted (east up) to provide better shelter for the British Isles</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2CDE0DF9-76D8-400A-8532-DFCD40938D51/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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