Talk:Transpeninsular Line

Territory dispute
Here is my rough calculation of the land lossed to Maryland due to the use of the Fenwick Island cape:
 * due to more southern location of the line: Fenwick Island to current Cape Henlopen is about 24 miles N-S x the E-W distance from Cape Henlopen to the current border of about 34 miles = 816 sq.miles.
 * due to the fact that the penninsula is narrower at the Cape Henlopen latitude, thus a shorter mid-point across the pennisula: distance from hypothetical midpoint to current border is 5 miles x distance from here to tangent of the The Twelve-Mile Circle is 88 miles x 0.5 (it is a triangular shape) = 220 sq.miles.
 * total is 1036 sq.miles.

An exact measurement is impossible, as there is no way to know where the surveyors would have decided to start the line on the Atlantic, and where the mid point would have been. --Eoghanacht 15:59, 2005 August 3 (UTC)