Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 30

Welcome to the Wikipedia Humanities Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

October 30

coastline length for British counties and Canadian provinces and territories

Does anyone know of any reliable sources that give the length of coastlines for individual Canadian provinces/territories and British (or at least English) counties? Finding the length of the coastlines of the country as a whole is trivial, and I found good sources for US states and Australian states/territories but nothing for the UK or Canada. I know about the coastline paradox but I'm not looking for an exact measure, indeed the accuracy doesn't matter too much for my purpose as long as all the counties are measured with approximately the same length meter as each other (and likewise for the Canadian subdivisions, whether that is the same measure as the UK one doesn't matter). Thryduulf (talk) 01:43, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

For Canada, http://schools.ednet.ns.ca/avrsb/070/tawebb/Oceans11/2CoastalZones/Coastline%20vs%20Shoreline%20stats.doc 06:46, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for that, but it doesn't look like a reliable source? Thryduulf (talk) 11:18, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Isn't http://ednet.ns.ca an official site of the government of Nova Scotia? How much more reliable do you want? How about the source given under the table on that doc, "Sebert, L.M., and M. R. Munro. 1972. Dimensions and Areas of Maps of the National Topographic System of Canada. Technical Report 72-1. Ottawa: Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Surveys and Mapping Branch"? Rojomoke (talk) 12:34, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

See British Columbia Coast, Geography of Ontario, maritime regions of Québec, Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador, Geography of Manitoba, New Bruswick, Nova Scotia coast, Geography of Alberta and Geography of Saskatchewan have no coastline. Can't find PEI or Yukon. This says that the NWT and Nunavut (about 16,000 km) have 21,131 km of coast between them and this says that Nunavut has 104,000 km. The last two indicate that there is obviously a huge difference in how they are measuring coastline. The second may be adding in the islands but the first looks small compared to some of the provinces. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 01:47, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for those. Anything for the UK? Thryduulf (talk) 19:13, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Have constant length accounting/business/tax years existed? (or months or quarters)

i.e. a 364 day year that starts the same day of the week or one where all months are 30 days. Or the very symmetrical 48 week year with 12 week quarters and 4 week months. Not the International Fixed Calendar formerly used by Kodak, that has leap days. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:39, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

The ISO week date comes close by alternating a 364-day, 52-week year with an occasional 371-day, 53-week year to bring the calendar back into alignment with the Gregorian Calendar. Similarly, the 4–4–5 calendar uses "months" of a repeating 4-4-5 week pattern, thus has exactly 4 13-week periods per year (and like the ISO calendar, 52 weeks). Like the ISO calendar, it has an occasional 53-week year to avoid getting too far off the common Gregorian calendar. --Jayron32 19:58, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Ammon Bundy's opinion on Dakota Access Pipeline protests

Has an enterprising reporter asked Bundy or any of his fellow occupiers of Malheur Refuge about their opinion of the protests in North Dakata, and about the arrests that have been made? If so, what did they answer? thanks! 155.97.8.166 (talk) 21:23, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Here. --Jayron32 23:45, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Is "the government" developing the pipeline? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:52, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

The Bakken pipeline is being developed by Energy Transfer Partners, but has access to Government powers in the form of eminent domain used by the government to seize property to allow ETP to build the pipeline, and government police are being used to disperse protesters. --Jayron32 10:41, 31 October 2016 (UTC)