Subject: Re: Is this a ARCL border marker?
Date: Feb 25, 2004 @ 19:10
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079"
<barbaria_longa@h...>
> wrote:
> > possibly
> > just possibly
> > for here is a stylistically similar one
> >
>
http://www.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/rhweb/Chile2001/
Tierra/I
> > mages/D038-0272.jpg
> >
> > & nice going in any case
> > because you may recall we have been looking for this point
> > since it could well be the southernmost border marker in the
world
>
>
> I don't think it is. Since the author is walking the Lago Roca trail,
> I think he has photographed Hito XXIV on the north bank of that
lake
> ( http://tierradelfuego.org.ar/planeamiento/M4.htm ). The
> southernmost marker is Hito XXVI, as you can see on that map.

great catch & handsome map besides

so clearly we are still 2 markers from the end of the world

good to have somewhere to go too

& maybe we can even figure out why this otherwise perfectly
meridional arcl boundary appears to lurch so at marker xxv

>
> See also the map at
> http://www.tierradelfuego.org.ar/parque/arearecreativa.htm .
>
> Peter S.