Subject: Re: binational quadripoints
Date: Nov 23, 2000 @ 14:32
Author: moc.il@li.com (moc.il@...)
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--- 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
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> >Interesting border line between 14 and 32!
> >
> >Jesper
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> >>
> >><http://www.inegi.gob.mx/territorio/espanol/datosgeogra/extterri/divpol.html>
y
> >>es indeed
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> 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
>
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> 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