Subject: Re: binational quadripoints
Date: Nov 23, 2000 @ 14:32
Author: moc.il@li.com (moc.il@...)
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would much like to see your jungholz maps brendan



if you would send them to j@...



thanx



m



& it was fun to retrace this thread



did you learn anything new about the baarle quadpoints during your recent visit



--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, michael donner <m@d...> 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.html

> where you can see it near the middle of the page & just above the word rethse

>

> 2 austria germany at

> http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/share?s54ai8wwa6vepwno

> where you can then zoom in or out for more context or precision

>

> m

>

>

>

>

>

> >Interesting border line between 14 and 32!

> >

> >Jesper

>

> >>

> >><http://www.inegi.gob.mx/territorio/espanol/datosgeogra/extterri/divpol.html>



y

> >>es indeed

>

> it almost crosses itself

>

> there are actually several necks or waists of these states

> jalisco & zacatecas

> each only a few miles wide

> but i think none so narrow nor dramatic as that of maryland

>

> there is at least one bizarre case however of a border actually meeting

> or even crossing

> itself

> like a mobius strip

> whichever way you prefer to look at it

>

> where this neat trick actually does occur

> it is the austria germany boundary that performs it

> just south of a resulting small quasi or pene enclave exclave place

> called jungholz austria

> which is thus effectively surrounded by german territory

> yet without becoming totally disconnected from the rest of austria

> all perhaps only 50km east of lake constance

> & it produces an amazing international but not multinational quadripoint

>

> you could dish it up yourself on mapquest

>

>

> i believe i have also seen on the web a photo of an identical twist

> or self crossing

> of the belgium holland boundary line in baarle

> as actually marked by a cross in the cobblestones

> but i cant find it now

>

> if you are interested in further pursuit of that point however

> i believe the famed military map of baarle also hints at it

>

> m