This is why setting borders based on rivers is fundamentally flawed.
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Such a stupid border decision. They should have fixed it in the territory swaps a few years ago.
They should just secede from the union and be a small city state.
Would it benefit anyone? No. Would it be very costly to make the transition and potentially wreak havoc on the community? Absolutely. But would it create a sense of civic pride and feel good for the residents of Point Roberts? Also no.
What territory swaps a few years ago?
It’s also too late now, even if you come to a political agreement you’d have to buy them out, have to hear about unseating American families, and I doubt Canada is willing to do that. What’s the point for that insignificant land?
Because they change and move over time. This river definitely didn’t start out like this and it almost certainly will look very different in just a few years’ time.
Just recently my country exchanged land with a neighbouring country to adjust for the changes of water, each giving and gaining the same amount of land. When water marks the border it’s much easier to know when you’re crossing it.
Edit: looked it up: in march we (Austria) traded 239 m² with Liechtenstein
Sooner or later they’re going to become meander scars or oxbow lakes, when the river reconnects with itself.
this just shed light on one of my fav song titles by an aussie group, thank you
And not far future! Both bends are within a couple of trees in missing each other.
For those not on the water much, see the beach on the left of the top bow? The opposite side is where the water is deeper and faster. It’ll chew through that bank and meet the other side soon enough.
Holy fuck that oxbow lake schematic on wikipedia looks earily like a vessicle coming of a piece of membrane
What’s the hells an oxbow?! Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry? Someone should tell me, do I need to buy a shield?
Oxbow is when a flowing body of water curves out like this over time. Eventually it will redirect to the older, more direct course, leaving an arc of unflowing water called an oxbow lake. This one might have two.
Sorry, I was just quoting Mr.Weebl’s old video about the subject, probably should have linked it in my original comment XD Youtube link
I don’t know much about rivers but based on the floods we had here in Brazil early this year, I don’t think that house will be there by the end of the century.
Yo but who is living in that little blue house, that must be sick
