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Post by EXO on Jan 6, 2012 11:29:30 GMT 8
Wikipedia says Corregidor is 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) long, and it is about 2.0 miles (3.2 km) wide at its widest point with a total land area is about 900 hectares (2,200 acres) or roughly 3 square miles (7.8 km2). John, Karl, where are you hiding the rest of it it? Tom, have you taken a bit home?
Anybody got an exact distance? Anybody got a really big tape measure?
[This issue has been discussed privately. I thought it might be worthwhile reopening the discussion here, so that those who weren't in the e-mail circle might be aware of it. The issue of AREA remains to be resolved - eXo)
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Post by batteryboy on Jan 6, 2012 12:06:49 GMT 8
General estimates: 3.5 miles long and 1.5 miles wide at its widest point as they say. (give or take a few feet, yards, inches) Hahahaha. But seriously, I cant really say how accurately they measured the entire island from head to toe. but for sure the Corps of Engineers would know.
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Post by EXO on Jan 7, 2012 11:38:52 GMT 8
Aha!! 1735 Acres! (Authority - J.H. & W.M. Belote)
That's 702 hectares or 2.7 sq miles, or 7.02 square kilometers.
Wikipedia says "a total land area (of) about 900 hectares (2,200 acres) or roughly 3 square miles (7.8 km2)."
Perhaps in the years between the time the Belotes' wrote their book (1966) and when Wikipedia was created, Corregidor's land mass was increased by plastic garbage, used hair shampoo and detergent sachets, old flip-flops, crud and crap floating ashore.
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