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A small selection of the lakes in Cavan. I can see my local on that map
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From https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=115160930#post115160930
Neanderthals And Humans Were at War For Over 100,000 YearsOn the "war" between Neanderthals and sapiens:
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-neanderthals-and-humans-battled-for-supremacy-for-over-100-000-years?fbclid=IwAR3lQhBlDa8m4XtcpbX49-6LLtWzUsffw_zxTMPniVY-nd61OUSTenLa7io
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For the curious, the wikipedia page on the Berlin-Baghdad railway does a decent job of explaining it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin–Baghdad_railway
To keep the maps coming lest the mods step in, here's Louis P. Bénézet's map of "Europe As It Should Be" (1918), depicting imagined nations based on ethnic and linguistic criteria. He basically was trying to solve the kinds of ethnic tensions he blamed as a leading cause of WWI.
Wales incorporating SW England is a new one to me. It also gives the Basques their independence, but not the Catalonians. The Ukranians might object too. There's a Yugoslavia of sorts, and we saw how well that turned out. The Greeks get part of the Turkish coast, which would have been quite the war!
The Greeks did actually get that war.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%931922)🙈🙉🙊
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Ireland's Territorial Waters
Internal Waters include waters on the landward side of the baseline (low-water line) of a nation's territorial waters, except in archipelagic states. It includes waterways such as rivers and canals, and sometimes the water within small bays. According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the coastal nation is free to set laws, regulate any use, and use any resource. Foreign vessels have no right of passage within internal waters, and this lack of right to innocent passage is the key difference between internal waters and territorial waters.
Territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The territorial sea is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state, although foreign ships (military and civilian) are allowed innocent passage through it, or transit passage for straits; this sovereignty also extends to the airspace over and seabed below.
The Contiguous Zone is a band of water extending farther from the outer edge of the territorial sea to up to 24 nautical miles (44.4 km; 27.6 mi) from the baseline, within which a state can exert limited control for the purpose of preventing or punishing "infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations within its territory or territorial sea".
An Exclusive Economic Zone extends from the baseline to a maximum of 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi), thus it includes the contiguous zone. A coastal nation has control of all economic resources within its exclusive economic zone, including fishing, mining, oil exploration, and any pollution of those resources. However, it cannot prohibit passage or loitering above, on, or under the surface of the sea that is in compliance with the laws and regulations adopted by the coastal State in accordance with the provisions of the UN Convention, within that portion of its exclusive economic zone beyond its territorial sea.
The Continental Shelf of a coastal nation extends out to the outer edge of the continental margin but at least 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) from the baselines of the territorial sea if the continental margin does not stretch that far. Coastal states have the right of exploration and exploitation of the seabed and the natural resources that lie on or beneath it, however other states may lay cables and pipelines if they are authorised by the coastal state. A coastal nation has control of all resources on or under its continental shelf, living or not, but no control over any living organisms above the shelf that are beyond its exclusive economic zone. This gives it the right to conduct hydrocarbon exploration and drilling works.
(sources: data.gov.ie, archaeology.ie, Wikipedia, this map)0 -
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That map isn't close to accurate. I have seen them near where I live, only a couple hundred metres from my house and picked a dead one up off a road last year. All not on the map.
I know those biodiversity maps are only as good as the info inputted by the general public, but they're nowhere near accurate.
Here's the one for the house mouse:
Not only is it not accurate that they're missing from more than half the country, but it's incredulous that there'd only be 1 in every 10km square where they are seen.
And here's the map for Steatoda nobilis, the Noble False Widow Spider. They're actually established throughout the country (I've personal experience of more than one of them in Co. Clare over the past few years).0 -
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