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Dedicated to Herbert Backert on occasion of his sixty fifth birthday.
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Gulliver, R., Hildebrandt, S. Boundary configurations spanning continua of minimal surfaces. Manuscripta Math 54, 323–347 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01171339
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