Subject: more maxipointing thoughts
Date: Jun 30, 2001 @ 20:10
Author: Michael Donner ("Michael Donner" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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grant

your fresh bonazazi findings & thoughts are still reverberating around the world

 

whether a new global maxipoint will ever actually emerge in that area seems more doubtful now than ever

but until the quadripoint issue is finally resolved there one way or another

i think it is fair to say you have counted coup on  or at least had a first good look at  the only putatively quadrisovereign area in the world

 

yes

a quadri area seems the right idea for now

 

for tho no quadripoint has been defined yet there

the quadriarea or at least quadriline of quadriuncertainty can be clearly defined

  i believe

    if i understand you & recall brownlie correctly

as the gap between the uppermost or westernmost historically known position of the chobe zambezi thalweg junction on the west hand

& on the east hand the intersection of the hunters road beacon line with the fullest possible range of historically known positions of both the thalweg & midpoint of the zambezi

  notwithstanding signposts of a reputed botswana zambia frontier

    since they could after all just be referring to the ferry crossing

 

& i believe the above description will produce a roughly triangular area of maximum possible quadriuncertainty

  & hence of max poss quadrisovereignty

between the two hands as described

 

old & new theses of where the 4 convergent international boundaries fall & meet within this triangle can come & go

but the triangle will not shrink until it is deliberately & definitively reduced by new international or multinational agreements &or judgments

possibly but not at all necessarily reducing the triangle to a single point

 

one clue that may already shrink the triangle somewhat tho is the position marked on brendans map for a botswana namibia zambia tripoint

was it map number 1077

i forgot

 

anyway that map shows that tripoint on dry land to the northeast of where it shows the chobe zambezi confluence

  tho i dont recall the map gave any hint of the braiding you observed

 

could this tripoint have already become legally fixed there at a former position of the thalweg junction

or was the mapmaker only dreaming or blundering

 

if the map is accurate & the tripoint was legally fixed there

i think the odds of a bonazazi quadripoint ever happening diminish dramatically

because brownlie does give the clear impression that the botswana zambia zimbabwe tripoint is delimited at least by the completely separate issue of the beacon alignment

 

so for these reasons i am guessing now that the global maxisovereign point is not now & will probably never become bonazazi

but the maxipoint will instead more probably remain the quintitertiary glhemaokpa

unless outmaxed by some as yet undreamt of quadriprimary or unheard of quintisecondary point

  or that ghost sexinational hendecapoint arauclfrgbnz aka the south pole

    but only in its future capacity as capital of everyones land

 

btw

i like your name bonazazi because it sounds so good

but is this an original bp cockabebbel

or is it in a regular language like fips or iso that i just havent encountered yet

 

afield as usual in the maxivan

m

  



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