Subject: Re: Sv: [BoundaryPoint] binational quadripoints
Date: Oct 02, 2000 @ 20:26
Author: Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen ("Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
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From: michael donner <m@...>
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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: Sv: [BoundaryPoint] binational quadripoints
> fantastic
> may our quest be with you matey
>
> vis tecum
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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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