Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Cameroon/Central African Rep. border - expert advice needed!<br/>
Date: Jul 10, 2001 @ 00:18<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-793880075">Brownlie is your man for African boundaries.<br/>
Check out his book in your local university library.<br/>
BW<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;From: &quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:granthutchison@...">granthutchison@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Reply-To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Cameroon/Central African Rep. border - expert <br/>
&gt;advice needed!<br/>
&gt;Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 19:39:44 -0000<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Border folk, I need any help you can offer.<br/>
&gt;I&#39;m looking for detail on the border between Cameroon and the Central<br/>
&gt;African Republic. Biger describes this as leaving the course of the<br/>
&gt;river Ngou, running along the Atlantic/Chad watershed for some<br/>
&gt;distance and then joining the Kadei river at its source. (This is<br/>
&gt;something of an oversimplification, because maps show the border<br/>
&gt;leaving the Ngou and following the Mide for a bit before striking off<br/>
&gt;cross country. They also show the border linking up with the Mbali<br/>
&gt;river before jinking across to the source of the Kadei.)<br/>
&gt;It&#39;s the cross-country bit in the middle that concerns me: Biger says<br/>
&gt;it follows the watershed, but the IGN and the local TPC show a series<br/>
&gt;of long straight-line segments. Does anyone know which of these is<br/>
&gt;correct?<br/>
&gt;The reason I ask pivots on a hill called Mont Ngaoui - if the border<br/>
&gt;follows the watershed, then Ngaoui is on the border, and therefore<br/>
&gt;the highest point in the CAR. If the border follows the straight line<br/>
&gt;segments, it cuts off Ngaoui and leaves it in Cameroon, so some other<br/>
&gt;hill in the (nicely named) Massif des Bongos becomes the highest<br/>
&gt;point in the CAR.<br/>
&gt;Just to add to the confusion, the GEOnet database puts Ngaoui in CAR,<br/>
&gt;and DeLorme&#39;s EarthA DVD puts it in Cameroon!<br/>
&gt;(In case you&#39;re wondering, and have made it to the end of this<br/>
&gt;posting, Ngaoui is important to me right now because my friend Ginge<br/>
&gt;Fullen is traipsing around Africa climbing the highest point in every<br/>
&gt;country there, and so needs definitive data.)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Grant<br/>
&gt;<br/>
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