Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re recent dc & pr questions
Date: Oct 20, 2001 @ 19:32
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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>From: "Grant >Michael:not to worry
> > anyway the great importance of this odd info for punctology is that
>the most
> > recently discovered pair of united states marine tripoints
> > prusvin & prusvis
> > will fall not equidistantly but considerably closer to the virgin
>islands
> > than to puerto rico
>
>Woops, I must have missed that thread (a symptom of my drop-in-and-
>browse link to this group, sorry).
>I'm just compiling a list of country borders at the 192(3)-country,
>200nm EEZ level, so I get a bit gripped about lines of equidistance.
>Are we talking Puerto Rico/USA/US Virgin Is. tripoints here? And if
>so, where? And does it necessarily follow that the bigger claim
>pushes the border back, as you seem to be suggesting?
>Or do I have a hold of the other end of a completely different stick?
>i think at this point it is technically impossible to speak in terms of any
>And BTW if anyone out there can shed light on the out-of-focus
>equidistance quadripoint between Puerto Rico, US Virgins, Anguilla
>and the northern bit of the Netherlands Antilles, I'd be very
>grateful. On Prescott's map the lines of equidistance converge to a
>quadripoint, but that surely isn't the case on the ground/sea.