brendan
what a multi cross
now you are holding the center piece of a mythic quintet of such crosses
that we are now daring to suppose actually exists in reality
involving a couple other such peneenclaves in baarle & a couple other
others in bengal
upon which
it just so happens
you may very well be uniquely well qualified on earth to report as well
so please if you would
this is extremely exciting
m
>
>Interesting, I have the German and austrian 1:25 000 sheets, and both
>seem to show a quadripoint form memory (i am out of the country at
>present). I have also heard from a colleague who spoke to the
>postmasteri n Jungholz that it is a point, surmounted by a cross,
>typical of Alpine countries, so that it is almost impossible to stand
>on the point itself. Jungholz is in the german customs and monetary
>zones, though this of less consequence since austria joined the EU,
>and with the Euro coming in.
>
>
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, "Peter Hering" <hering@m...> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>> re: Jungholz, AT: thanks for your research on this phantastic
>> geographical "blowhole" - or gap. I just received my topo-
>> map on Jungholz (1:25.000). This map clearly gives evidence
>> of Jungholz being connected to the rest of Austria by a very
>> narrow gateway of 10-20 meters... yes, an expedition to that
>> point could very well be part of next year's GCEBE...!
>> The area seems quite accessible to me, there's a track
>> leading all the way to m"our" spot!!!
>> Best regards
>> Peter
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: David Mark <dmark@g...>
>> To: <BoundaryPoint@egroups.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] binational quadripoints
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, michael donner wrote:
>> >
>> > > to confirm both instances of international boundaries actually
>touching or
>> > > crossing themselves as previously suggested
>> > >
>> > > 1 belgium holland at
>> > >
><http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/baarle/baarlemap.htm>
>http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/baarle/baarlemap.htm
>l
>> > > where you can see it near the middle of the page & just above
>the word rethse
>> >
>> > The Baarle examples look like read self-interscting or figure-8
>> > international border points, "binational quadripoints" is a good
>term.
>> >
>> > > 2 austria germany at
>> > > <http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/share?s54ai8wwa6vepwno>
>>http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/share?s54ai8wwa6vepwno
>> > > where you can then zoom in or out for more context or precision
>> >
>> > If you click to center the map at the (apparent) wusfripoint and
>them zoom
>> > in as far as you can, the apparent binational quadripoints
>appears to
>> > resolve itself into nothing more than a narrow neck, Austria
>appears to be
>> > connected by perhaps a 10 meter gateway between two points of
>Bavaria.
>> >
>> > A road trip could be in order.
>> >
>> > David