rich castagna of njdep
creator of the new njny state line on ellis island
just called back confirming a final grand total of 182 turn points &
a final judgment & inception date of 17 may 1999
& he is actually mailing to me today from trenton the full point to
point to point legal description & official map
so it appears i will soon personally have the pleasure of both
measuring & computing the length of the full line for ourselves
& thus the anticipated photo finish between west kytn & njny ellis
will be taking place right here in our own face perhaps as early
as saturday afternoon
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> while awaiting the official new jersey computation of the total
> length of the new njny state line on ellis island
> i have been anticipating & preparing for a photo finish
> between it & west kytn
> based just on my previous rough measurement of 3 miles for
> the latter & my much rougher sense that the 5 acre area
> enclosed by the former might have a perimeter length of about
3
> miles too
>
>
> but a more careful measurement of west kytn using the best
> available paper topos produced a length of 15899 feet
> or very slightly over 3 miles
>
> & a careful computation of west kytn performed by connecting
the
> best available geocoordinates of its presumptive terminal
points
> with a great circle arc came to 15787 feet
> or very slightly under 3 miles
>
> the difference of 112 feet between the measurement & the
> computation amounts to about a millimeter & a half on the
map
> but because the termini fall at indefinite tripoints
> such a discrepancy is entirely negligible
> & even with the utmost care we probably cant get a better fix on
> the true length of west kytn than to say it is very nearly if not
> exactly 3 miles or 15840 feet
>
>
> & a more careful mathematical analysis of the njny boundary
on
> ellis island reveals that the enclosed area of just under 5 acres
> would have a minimum possible perimeter of about 1600 feet
> if condensed into a circular or nearly circular shape
> &
> if formed as a regular convex polygon
> its maximum perimeter would approach 2000 feet
>
> & tho our irregular 180 sided polygon follows a fairly erratic
path
> & incorporates into itself many perimeter stretching concavities
&
> proruptions
> it still seems doubtful that its full perambulation could rack up
as
> much as 3 miles
>
> so at this point the njny ellis candidate remains perhaps a
slight
> favorite to underwhelm the west kytn candidate at the wire
>
> but dont blink yet