From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Petrolias on the map
Date:	Tue, 19 May 1998 14:49:33 -0700

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> From: Philippe Garneau <aaa302@*****.ULAVAL.CA>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Petrolias on the map
> Date: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 2:15 PM
> With a quick search on M$-Encarta, I found:
>
<snip>
> - Petrolia, a coastal town in North California (certainly the same as the
> one you mentioned), IMHO, the most probable candidate, since there's the
> Pacific to the West, and it's a geologically active zone;
>
> - multiple Petrolias, all in Mainland USA and Canada (one in Ontario,
with
> the Michigan Lake in the 300 kms to the west, but I would find that one
hard
> to believe! :-)
>
> So it's the Petrolia on the Pacific Coast that would interest most, I
> suppose, it's 50 kms south of Eureka, so that makes it in Calfree.
>
> A question: can Dunkie have a prospecting claim on an island that doesn't
> exist yet?
>

Perhaps. Can you own sub-aquatic real estate? If he has mining rights to
that part of the ocean floor, perhaps when it becomes an island it will
still be his.