Talk:Strait of Juan de Fuca
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The Juan De Fuca was legally owned by the USSR in 1783. Came from the Greek name (froo-dah-heesh) which means....you figure it out!
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On 12 March User:24.41.45.153 added the following comment at the bottom of the article: The Strait was not named by John Meares but by British Captain Charles Barkley (also spelled Barclay) in 1787.
This user's only other contribution to date has been to add "He is cool" to the Beethoven article so not necessarily someone to be taken seriously. --Spondoolicks 23:23, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
- Heh.. the user was right. I'll add a reference for it. And actually, since the USGS GNIS page claims it was Meares in 1788, I added several citations saying it was Barkley in 1787. The USGS is considered a reliable and quite official source, but its GNIS pages are sometimes wrong. I figure it needed more than just the BCGNIS page to counter, so I added three more references, two of which can be read online. Pfly (talk) 15:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Boundary Dispute
I've never quite figured out how best to cite sources in wikipedia. The help pages provide a lot of different example styles.. so much that I am left unsure how best to do it. So for now I'm just commenting here.. on the boundary dispute, I'm guessing the CIA Factbook is a reliable source? https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ca.html -- Canada page, bottom section, "Transnational Issues": "Disputes - international: managed maritime boundary disputes with the US at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Roc" Pfly 03:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- The best source on the internet that I've been able to find so far is http://www.cwilson.com/pubs/energy/alaska.pdf.
In the Juan de Fuca dispute area near Cape Flattery the Government of British Columbia has rejected the proposed United States - Government of Canada boundary delineation based on equidistance principles. Rather, British Columbia has argued that the southwesterly trending submarine extension of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Juan de Fuca Canyon, is a "geomorphic and physiogeographic boundary". British Columbia argued the Juan de Fuca Canyon is a "special circumstance" in law as provided in Article 6(2) of the 1958 U.N. Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf. The Province claims that the "natural prolongation" of British Columbia territory is terminated by the submarine canyon.
Richard Hendricks (talk) 22:36, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
- Does the article's newer text with the above info and the link to that PDF provide enough information to remove to expand tag? It seems to explain the basic issue and gives a link to more detailed info. The page as a whole is fairly short as it is. The boundary issue section looks good enough to me. Can the tag be removed? Pfly (talk) 15:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
