following are the assembled clues from gideon to all 39 tps of countries
that begin with the letter a
or roughly a quarter of the entire tp inventory
i am spilling them all now because a few of the new details & names here
could join the previous list of mountain peaks as photo search bait
>americas
>
>a01 argentina bolivia chile
zapaleri peak 18641ft
>a02 argentina bolivia paraguay
at la esmeralda in pilcomayo river 1320ft
>a03 argentina brazil paraguay
thalweg in confluence of parana & iguacu
>a04 argentina brazil uruguay
near sw cor of brazilera island
at thalweg in confluence of quarai & paraguai
>europe
>
>e01 albania greece macedonia
in lake prespa sw of veliki grad island
>e02 albania macedonia yugoslavia
in the mountainous area of korab
>e03 andorra france spain east
south of la cassa pass
on the only road to france
>e04 andorra france spain west
7 miles nw of andorra la vella
>e05 austria czech republic germany
near plockenstein elev 4532ft
>e06 austria czech republic slovakia
near confluence of thaya & march
>e07 austria germany switzerland possibly a hole but
in lake constance 2mi north of alten rhein switz
>e08 austria hungary slovakia
about 2mi east of deutsch zurndorf
>e09 austria hungary slovenia
about 2mi east of tauka
>e10 austria italy slovenia
at patzen pec on mt forno or ofen 4948ft
>e11 austria italy switzerland
at gruben joch
near n slope of piz lad elev 7155ft
>e12 austria liechtenstein switzerland north
on rhine
>e13 austria liechtenstein switzerland south
near naafkopf peak 8430ft
>africa
>
>f01 algeria libya niger
n23d30m54s e11d59m54s6d
>f02 algeria libya tunisia
boundary point no 220
>f03 algeria mali mauritania
n25 w4d50m
>f04 algeria mali niger
about n19d08m30s e04d14m30s
>f05 algeria mauritania western sahara
in dispute
possibly on northern bank of a wadi
at about n27d17m40s w08d40m
>f06 algeria morocco western sahara
in ouarkziz range
at or north of n27d40m w08d40m
>f07 angola congo congo democratic republic
on chiloango river opposite a mountain ridge
>f08 angola congo democratic republic zambia
on the watershed between the congo & zambezi rivers
>f09 angola namibia zambia
on kwando river
>asia
>
>z01 afghanistan china pakistan
2 unnamed peaks 2 miles apart near lake zorkul
per sino afghan agmt n37d03m e74d34m 18471ft
per sino pak agmt n37 e75
an inconsequential difference in an uninhabitable region
>z02 afghanistan china tajikistan
povalo shveykovski peak in little pamirs
>z03 afghanistan iran pakistan
kuh i malik siah peak n29 e61 5425ft
>z04 afghanistan iran turkmenistan
in zulfikar pass on hari rud river
>z05 afghanistan tajikistan uzbekistan
on median line in amu darya river at e64d40m
>z06 afghanistan turkmenistan uzbekistan
in the amu darya river
>z07 armenia azerbaijan georgia
e45 south of khrami river
>z08 armenia azerbaijan iran east
thalweg of aras river
>z09 armenia azerbaijan iran west
thalweg of aras river
south of railway & road jct
>z10 armenia azerbaijan turkey
on west bank of aras river
>z11 armenia georgia turkey
on ridge betw lake cildir & akhuryan river
>z12 azerbaijan georgia russia
on crest of caucasus & betw watersheds
>z13 azerbaijan iran turkey
thalweg of aras river
nevertheless i adjourned or aborted the roundup at this point
because the data are proving to be a lot spottier & more fragmentary than
expected
& also because i finally realized it would save a lot of work in the end to
consult directly the various more specialized & detailed authorities for
each area of the world
such as brownlie for africa
or the world boundary series for america & the middle east
etc
& moreover any such comprehensive endeavor will be better postponed until
more sensible means of collecting & indexing the results are available
i will devote separate messages to some other finds & to questions you have
asked
& please feel free to ask any others while i have the book here to consult
but i should just add one caution here about all these promising photo
search terms
namely that a closer look at some of the mountain peaks i mentioned
yesterday has revealed some additional cases of possible simplification by
gideon
especially in austria as you may have noticed above
nor are such approximations surprising or objectionable in such a book
but point hounds may just need to be more exacting than this at times
like for example on mt uweinat
tho gideon identifies the peak as the tp in one place
he asserts elsewhere that the tp falls exactly at the intersection of lat
n22 & long e25 & thus perhaps only very near the peak rather than
necessarily at the precise summit point per se
& it seems from this & other signs of simplification that every mountain tp
in gideons list will still have to be double checked to see if it really is
a summit tp
etc
but i do expect brownlie et al will easily settle things like this
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