Subject: Re: Sv: [BoundaryPoint] binational quadripoints
Date: Oct 03, 2000 @ 02:17
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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I haven't been to Jungholz, but am heading to Baarle shortly, so will be
able to rpeort later this year.
As for Bengal, hard to tell. Many boundary pillars in the enclaves have been
uprooted possibly as political protest, but locals said because outsiders
thought they marked the location of, or themselves contianed, magents or
other valuable material. There does seem to be at least one quadpoint where
2 Bengal enclaves meet, but it is in the middle of a river (or at least was
in 1930 when the map was drawn). I had to work with old British mapping when
in the area, but the road network and the villages and the rivers had all
dramatically changed in the intervening period.
Once i have all my notes in one place, i will regale you with tales of
enclave derring-do, and maybe a photo or two. Am currently in England.

For those in the SW of the USA, check out the Navajo and Hopi reservations
in NE Az (who hated 2 and 3 letter abbrevs? ;-) )
One is enclaved in the other.
Several Indian reservations in the US are also chequerboards fo squares,
each 1 square mile. Like a chequerboard, the black squares belong to the
natives, and the white squares to the whites... ironic, huh? ;-) See the
area around Palm Springs especially. Often Federal land is also in such a
pattern. The DeLorme state topographic road atlases often have a central
page for the SW states, showing land ownership by Fed dept, private, state
etc.

Brendan


>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.

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