Subject: brownlie on tp algeria libya tunisia<br/>
Date: Nov 30, 2000 @ 03:26<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1541822356">in several places brownlie says<br/>
  & gideon incidentally agrees<br/>
the definitive tripoint marker is situated at boundary mark 220<br/>
  of the 1911 franco turkish demarcation<br/>
on a rocky gara near fort saint in southernmost tunisia<br/>
<br/>
this mark lies 1600m west of mark 219<br/>
  now on the libya tunisia boundary<br/>
& 2100m east of mark 221<br/>
  on a rocky hill now on the algeria libya boundary<br/>
<br/>
but elsewhere brownlie says<br/>
  following the u s dept of state 1972<br/>
the tripoint lies at an unspecified point between marks 220 & 221<br/>
in very roughly n lat 30d 13m 30s & e long 9d 33m 30s<br/>
p141<br/>
<br/>
note that these 2 versions could differ by as much as 2km<br/>
<br/>
the discrepancy evidently arose because there were 2 slightly different<br/>
official maps of the provisional undetermined boundary between algeria &<br/>
tunisia dating from the french colonial period when this line was purely<br/>
administrative<br/>
<br/>
until the matter is settled<br/>
tripoint seekers may be well advised to touch mark 220 & then proceed due<br/>
west to mark 221 so as to cover all eventualities<br/>
<br/>
since both marks are on elevations they may prove to be intervisible<br/>
which could also be a help<br/>
but not as much help as finding the original french colonial maps<br/>
<br/>
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