Hey Doug

Since you are now in the area, could you not pop down to photograph the point where GYVE hits the Caribbean Sea?

Jesper

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From: acroorca2002

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:16 AM

Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: GYVE(Caribbbean Sea)

according to this venezuelan border brief in spanish dated 2002 http://www.monographias.com/trabajos12/liven/liven.shtml the parties are seeking a solution & have announced that the dispute is nearly resolved tho no details have been released special to doug good point & nice biscuit mix --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote: > from > http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS021.pdf > > at the oceans edge > currents & waves have built a long low ridge of alluvial materials > under the solid stand of tangled mangroves > behind which tidal lagoons & marshes & river floodplains > choked by heavy swamp grass are subject to regular > inundations > > the wet savannah is broken only by narrow tree covered ridges of > older alluvium that deflects the sluggish rivers > causing them to parallel the coast > > > starting from the coast at punta playa > where there is a terminal monument in nlat 8d33m22s & wlong > 59d59m48s > the boundary runs 21 miles in a straight line to the barima river > at its junction with the mururuma river > where there is a second monument in nlat 8d18m44s & wlong > 59d48m10s > & thence along the midstream of the latter river > etc etc etc > eventually up to brgyve at mount roraima > > but this line & its monumentation circa 1900 have been > repudiated by venezuela > in favor of a highly dubious line along the essequibo > which would give venezuela roughly half of what is generally > recognized as guyana today > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" > <orc@o...> wrote: > > yes i once blew right thru there sailing from port of spain to > > berbice guyana > > > > the atlantic there is an incredibly pale green lake > > with hardly a ripple > > against a darker green band of jungle on the coast > > > > the border is in dispute > > but you are probably talking about the guyanese position at > > punta playa in the barima estuary rather than the venezuelan > one > > on the essequibo river > > > > > http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/maps/bs2 > > 1.php > > > > but what is the question about > > > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen" > > <jesniel@i...> wrote: > > > I will just come with a border POINT question, which may > > involve some border issues. > > > > > > Does anybody know how this point looks like (and the exact > > course of the GYVE just before it reaches the water)? > > > > > > > > > http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/south_america/venezuel > > a/venezuela.htm > > > > > > Jesper

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