Talk:Boundary Islet

Unlikely to be 6 hectares

This islet is listed as 6 hectares at Geoscience Australia, but the same page has the islet measuring 85 metres east-west by 160 metres north-south, which is 1.36 hectares. A quick look with Google Earth confirms the much smaller size. Any objections to making a correction here, or am I missing something? Weedwhacker128 (talk) 21:12, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

The story that John Black erred in surveying the location of the island not really true. Black sailed past one day in early January 1801 - second ship to sail through Bass Strait from the west. The first survey was by Flinders in 1802/3 and published in 1814. It placed the the southern tip of Wilson's Promontory at latitude 39°12′ S Based on this, the northern border of Tasmania was set to latitude 39°12′ S when the colony of Tasmania separated from the colony of New South Wales in 1825. (Moore, 2014)

• Map - Historic Plan 13 - chart by M Flinders, commissioner of HM Sloop, Investigator 1798, 1802 and 1803 of Terra Australis northern Tasmania, Bass Strait and New South Wales, south coast sheet V, publ as the Act directs by G & K Nicol Pall Mall 1/2/1814, LINC Tasmania, 1814, retrieved 13 April 2017
• King, Philip Gidley, 1817-1904 (1801), This being an eye-copy from the charts made by Lieut. Grant in the Lady Nelson, Mr. Black in the Harbinger, and Mr. Buyers in the Margaret : it is no otherwise correct than to give an idea of those vessels tracks through the Straits, s.n, retrieved 13 April 2017{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814 (1803), A chart of Bass's Straits with the traks [i.e. tracks] of the Harbinger Captn. John Black in Decr. 1800 & Jan. 1801 and the Margaret Captn. John Buyers in Jany. & Feby. 1801 through the Straits in their passage toward Port Jackson, retrieved 13 April 2017{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Moore, Garry (April 2014). "The boundary between Tasmania and Victoria: Uncertainties and their possible resolution" (PDF). Traverse (294). The Institute of Surveyors Victoria. Retrieved 2015-04-10.

Billingd (talk) 06:29, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi David B.,

I saw a video about the border between Victoria and Tasmania on North East Isle on YouTube. I added Boundary Isle to North East Isle on Google Maps after reading a little about the island. There is actually a boundary shown up close. However, there are conflicting pages (re Boundary vs. North East Isle); acreages do not match is one example.

I've never done editing for Wikipedia. I seldom send many corrections to Google Maps since it is often a confusing process.

If you would like to tackle this discrepancy, be my guest.

Kind regards,

John Harris

Norwood, Massachusetts

USA

PS. I took 3 different screen shots but can't seem to attach them for you. Johnny in USA (talk) 20:49, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Is there actually a land border between Victoria and Tasmania?

It doesn't appear to be the case. Geoscience Australia's official list of Australian state and territory borders [1] does not recognise the existence of a land border between Victoria and Tasmania. There is a NIL entry for the length of Tasmania's land borders. There is also an explicit statement that the shortest land border in Australia is that between New South Wales and the Jervis Bay Territory, at 32km.

elevation

What is the islet's elevation? Will it get submerged due to global warming? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:5B4:8580:9867:83D4:4563:C999 (talk) 18:20, 14 July 2020 (UTC)