Yes, actually there are now two big border monuments on the two main roads, and the border IS actually marked by a small stone wall almost the entire width of the island. Also on the eastern tip, according to the 1:50000, there is a pene-exclave at Oyster Pond--a border marker on the tip of a small Dutch peninsula, making the tip of the peninsula French. I want to see this on a 1:25000 to see if that's what it is. Indeed on land there is what appears to be a frontier pillar on the small peninsula.
I think this was brought up before, but also at Oyster Pond may be the shortest international bridge (aside from the little ones at the International Peace Garden I mentioned before). I need to check this one out on the 1:25000 map though. There's a floating bar/restaurant (actually on pillars, not floating), which you enter on a small bridge, apparently through which runs the Dutch-French border. So the entrance is on the French side, but the restaurant is Dutch.
The Lonely Planet guidebook said that bookstores on the island had the 1:25000 for sale, but I was unable to locate one.
Dallen
-----Original Message-----
From: acroorca2002 [mailto:orc@...]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:46 AM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: St Maarten
wow
flash us your 50k map too if you would
it would be the best we have yet seen here
good maps & treaty texts have both been very elusive
did you see any more than the main monument
no others have been reported yet
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Dallen Timothy
<dtimothy@a...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a 1:25,000 topo map of St Martin/Maarten? I
spend a couple
> of weeks there last month and took lots of pictures of the
border. I only
> have access to the 1:50,000 map, which is ok, but I'd like more
details.
>
> I'll post some pictures in the near future.
>
> If anyone has the topo map, I'd really like to see images of the
border on
> the western and eastern ends of the island.
>
> Cheers,
> Dallen
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