finally a peek at dry bps
the southernmost dry boundary point in the world
first by map
where you can also see it abuts a restricted nature area
http://www.tierradelfuego.org.ar/pntf/mapas.htm
& then the long panoramic view up beagle channel from ushuaia
http://www.argentinaxplora.com/activida/parques/parc/tfuego.htm
class d but good looking
the coastal terminal point of the meridional border
which i have also confirmed has been delimited at exactly 68
degrees 34 minutes west longitude as well as marked at least
in places
falls probably well within the photo
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, jesniel@i... wrote:
> > http://www.dpc.dk/PolarfrontenDPC/3_01/IslandsReport.html
>
> which reminds me
> which reminds me
> ever since craig arrived with dry bpn
> aka the northernmost dry boundary point on earth
> in message 8709
> we have made precious little progress toward bringing home
the
> remaining cardinal extremity dry points
> namely dry bpe & dry bpw & dry bps
> to complete our global dry bp news tour
> which tho so well begun is still nowheres near half done
>
> the best progress i can claim to have made so far is with dry
bpe
> for i have at least definitely located it at one of 4 monuments all
> somewhere in south central new guinea
> at or very near elong 141d01m10s
> & numbered respectively mm11 mm12 mm13 & mm14
>
> these are all mapped as well as precisely geocoordinated in
>
http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/pactreaties/Treaties_etc/treaties_In
> donesia_&_Australia1.html
>
> the difficulty here tho is that until someone lays an industrial
> strength gps on all 4 of these monuments
> we wont know which of them is a few millimeters farther east
> than the others
> tho it is some consolation to at least know the longitude of dry
> bpe down to the nearest second wherever it may lie
>
> no pix of any of the 4 candidate monuments nor of any of the 14
> probably identical monuments in this series have yet been
found
>
>
> turning next to dry bpw
> which is in itself a fun thing to do
> since it lies at almost the mirror image of the dry bpe longitude
> this has been a real beguiler because it is right here on caus
> & tho i have long had its location down to about a 10 foot
square
> at wlong 141d00m07s6 & nlat 60d18m22s9
> & can identify it both as boundary point 187 & as the famous
> turnpoint on a shoulder of mount saint elias where the long
> meridional caus line begins its peak to peak zigzag down the
> alaska panhandle
> i dont even know if it is monumented
>
> in fact i rather doubt it is marked at all
> strange tho it feels to imagine a completely naked turnpoint
> because many of its serial mates have expressly been
assigned
> monument numbers by the ibc rather than simply boundary
point
> numbers such as this point & some others have
> according to
>
http://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/coordinates/S
> ECT-P-83.txt
> &
>
http://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/coordinates/S
> ECT-Q-83.txt
>
> & tho picture archives show many of the key monuments on
the
> alaska border
> none is ever mentioned as existing at this most critical position
>
> pix of mount saint elias also abound
> but none in which this turnpoint or any part of the border can be
> discerned
>
>
> i did just find several interesting pages tho about this peculiar
> peak to peak caus line dating back to 1825 when it was still
gbru
> beginning at
> http://www.explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa103000a.htm
>
>
> & turning finally to dry bps
> which is nowheres near a mirror image of the dry bpn latitude
> being a whopping 15 degrees less extreme than it
> this point is easily identifiable as being where the argentina
chile
> meridional border meets the beagle channel on tierra del
fuego
> but i have found no word of where the terminal monument lies
> & no pic yet of any arcl monument anywhere for that matter
> nor any pic yet either of the otherwise much photographed
> channel showing the place where the border strikes it
>
> a most mysterious & intriguing complete absence of data
>
>
> so all in all it is hard to say which of these 3 tries has been
most
> elusive so far