The Nigeria-Chad boundary is a funny fish!

And so is Lake Chad - on some maps the boundary is entirely wet, on some it is half wet, on some it cut islands, and on some there are even towns.

I also seem to remember seeing an un-fiat line there.

Jesper

----- Original Message -----
From: "michael donner" <m@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fiat boundaries

> & jesper
> of these 5 or 3 singular fiat boundaries we have found
> your chad nigeria line is probably the truest & purest in the world
> by virtue of being totally wet as well as probably unmarked
> & therefore almost certainly absolutely undeflected by so much as a single
> subatomic particle
>
> m
>
>
> still cresting on my brendan waves
> & so wishing for the perfect moment point of happy landing
>
>
> >
> >ahh
> >now i think i see what you really meant
> >
> >a single sector straight line boundary
> >with no deliberate deflections
> >
> >a much more special category than i realized in my double take
> >& its our first bp triple take
> >
> >so i withdraw all my suggestions except for iraq jordan
> >
> >& if western sahara is demoted to nonsovereign
> > & considered only as a part of morocco
> > as in the latest country census from grant
> >we could conceivably eliminate 2 of yours too
> >leaving a total of only 3 world class cases in all
> >
> >thus you appear to have found as small & special an elite
> >as our set of 2 or 3 world class boundary crosses
> >
> >m
> >
> >>
> >>jesper
> >>this question is more fascinating & playful than i first realized
> >>& your list might be increased by the following
> >>tho i am not sure about several of them
> >>
> >>libya chad
> >>libya niger
> >>libya sudan
> >>algeria niger
> >>mauritania morocco or western sahara
> >>togo upper volta
> >>kenya somalia
> >>kenya sudan
> >>iraq jordan
> >>iraq saudi
> >>jordan saudi
> >>oman saudi
> >>oman yemen
> >>saudi yemen
> >>
> >>interesting that they are all pretty much in north africa & arabia
> >>
> >>m
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Which international boundaries are 100% fiat, meaning 100% straight?
> >>>
> >>>On the map I see:
> >>>
> >>>Morocco-Western Sahara
> >>>Algeria-Mauretania
> >>>Western Sahara-Algeria
> >>>Nigeria-Chad
> >>>
> >>>But perhaps there are minor irregularities I cannot see on my map, so who
> >>>can confirm this?
> >>>
> >>>Jesper
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