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