ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman) (08/09/85)
I have received only one response to the disconnected states puzzle: > The states of Hawaii and Michigan (among others) have disconnected land > areas, but are geographically connected if you include their water areas. > > What states remain disconnected even if you include their water areas? > I can think of two. Q-Bick (ihnp4!qubix!lab) correctly named Kentucky as one of the disconnected states. The far western end of Kentucky is a tiny peninsula formed by a meander of the Mississippi River which is bounded on the south by Tennessee and on the remaining three sides by Missouri. The other disconnected state is New York. Ellis Island and Liberty Island (home of the Statue of Liberty) are considered part of New York, but they both lie entirely within New Jersey waters. -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-h:ags
thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (08/13/85)
In article <2191@pucc-h> ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman) writes: >The other disconnected state is New York. Ellis Island and Liberty Island >(home of the Statue of Liberty) are considered part of New York, but they >both lie entirely within New Jersey waters. Actually, I read in the paper today that someone has found a treaty from 1889 that "cedes" Ellis Island and Liberty Island to NJ. ("See you in court."-) -- =Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA) "To feel at home, stay at home. A foreign country is not designed to make [one] comfortable. It's designed to make its own people comfortable." Clifton Fadiman
glc@akgua.UUCP (G.L. Cleveland [Lindsay]) (08/21/85)
May I contribute another disconnected state... Thanks to some "ox-bowing" of the Missouri River, there is a small town of Carter Lake, Iowa which is on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River and more or less enclosed on the other three sides by the city of Omaha. It makes a nice place for Omaha folks to go when the want access to Off-Track Betting (OTB)! Cheers, Lindsay Lindsay Cleveland (akgua!glc) (404) 447-3909 Cornet 583-3909 AT&T Technologies/Bell Laboratories ... Atlanta, Ga