Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] River sources
Date: Mar 19, 2001 @ 21:37
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>michael donner wrote:
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>>
>> the greatest fun comes in trying to discern at every fork which branch is
>> the most major one
>> & in tracing the last trickle to its usually potable fountainhead
>> & i can tell you there are many named rivers like the mississippi which
>> themselves lose track of their own main stem
>
>I know. Great Britain and the Netherlands were at it, and now Guyana and
>Surinam (Although 'fun' is
>not the operative word here). The Corantyne should be the boundary river
>way up to the source. But
>then some explorer found a new river (subsequently named New River), a
>tributary, but one which
>could also considered to be the upper part of the Corantyne, the Dutch
>argued. In that case Surinam
>would be a lot bigger. The area is known as the New River Triangle, and
>together with the dispute
>about where in the Corantyne the international boundary is situated
>(middle of the stream or on the
>left bank, and consequently the boundary between the terr. waters and the
>EEZ's) is a major source
>of trouble between the two countries.
>
><http://www.guyanaca.com/suriname/guysuri_boundary.html>
>http://www.guyanaca.com/suriname/guysuri_boundary.html for the Guyanan
>view of things;
>
><http://www.suriname.nu/hellen/westgrens.htm>
>http://www.suriname.nu/hellen/westgrens.htm for the Surinam view (in Dutch
>only, unfortunately)
>Here it says that in 1936 a tripoint monument was established (brgbnl) at
>the spot the English
>advocated. The Dutch probably agreed, but the Surinamese certainly don't
>agree now.
>
>Peter S.
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