Subject: Re: mauritanian qp class e retry again
Date: Aug 13, 2003 @ 14:55
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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oops
the ghost town & hilltop url has now been corrected below

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079"
<barbaria_longa@h...> wrote:
> the following followup report has been reconstituted from
> concentrate
> after the original which was launched yesterday has turned up
> missing in the yahoo ether
>
> so dont be surprised if more & better info arrives even much
later
> but the skinny for now is
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/mauritania_pol95.jpg
> http://i-cias.com/mauritania/ksar_el_barka.htm
> where it may be possible to see this megapoint while facing
the
> sunset from the hilltop beside the ghost town
> tho demarcation if any is unknown
>
> cardinal cross megapoints like azconmut or mbnuntsk are
> normal & even common
> as in the quadricounty points of the american midwest etc
> but this quadri regional point of mauretania is the highest level
if
> not the only diagonal crisscross in the world
>
> besides being one of fewer than a dozen known second level
> megapoints of any description
> etc