is there any info here about the andorra tripoints

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--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...>
wrote:

> After researching the case of Llivia, I can field this one:
> After the Treaty of the Pyrenees defined the boundary between France

and

> Spain in 1659, the border was definitively demarcated on the ground

as the

> result of three treaties in the 1860s. The first started at Bidossa

and went

> east, the markers being numbered fomr #1 at that end. The second

treaty

> contined on to Andorra, continuing the numbering, and the third form

andorra

> past Llivia (with 42 separately numbered markers) to the

Mediterranean

> (#600).
> The treaties with their descriptions of the border line and the

positions of

> the markers are available in Parry's 140+ volume set "Consolidated

Treaty

> Series".
> The markers themselves should be shown and numbered on either of the

French

> 1:25000 map series, Topo25 or Series Bleu.
>
> Brendan Whyte
>
>
> >From: "Eef Berns" <eefberns@d...>
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
> >To: <boundarypoint@egroups.com>
> >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] border markers France-Spain
> >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:28:06 +0100
> >
> >I did a lot of walking in the Pyrenees, following the long distance

-coast

> >to coast- path GR10. There's a line of border markers on the

mountain

> >ridges. I photographed some of them while passing. According to an

French

> >article I found by accidence, there are 600 numbered border

markers. A

> >question about these markers in French usenet-newsgroups led to

nothing.

> >Does anyone of you know more about it?
> >
> >
> >vriendelijke groet,
> >
> >Eef Berns
> >
> >-----------------------
> >website:
> >- de grenspalen van Nederland (the border markers of the

Netherlands):

> >http://huizen.dds.nl/~eefberns
> >
> >
>
>

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