Subject: Re: Switzerland-Liechtenstein
Date: Oct 31, 2003 @ 23:01
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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hi
nice question
message 2655 pretty much settles it with eye witness accounts

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Craig" <trehala@y...>
wrote:
> Hi BoundaryPointers
>
> I am looking through the new Lonely Planet guide to
Switzerland
> (published July 2003) and two maps of the
Switzerland-Liechtenstein
> border have me puzzled. Maybe I should not take a guidebook
map as
> authoritative, however on page 295, the entire eastern bank of
the
> Rhine has been "ceded" to Switzerland (thereby making
Liechtenstein
> truly landlocked). Whereas on page 313, the western border of
> Liechtenstein extends to include the western bank of the
Rhine. In
> both cases, one country or the other possesses a hairline
bank of
> land on the opposite side of the Rhine River. BTW, the former
map
> also assigns to Switzerland all of Austria's Rhinebank.
>
> Surely this is an error committed twice? Is not the CHLI (the
> abbreviated code, I am guessing) border the Rhine River
itself?
>
> Craig Rowland
> Mississauga, Ontario, Canada