Which leads to the question of which manmade segments
are NOT straight. The only thing that comes to my
mind is the DE-PA Arc (or Arcs). Are there any world
class examples? I can not think of one, but I may be
forgetting about something.

--- m06079 <barbaria_longa@...> wrote:

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> Smaardijk"
> <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > Note also that it is a municipal exclave of
> Innerferrera.
> > Cf.
>

http://www.innerferrera.ch/innerferrera/geschichte.html

>
> (mentions
> > a territory exchange with Italy in 1962/63 as the
> cause).
> > Peter S.
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "chris
> schulz"
> <23568@g...>
> > wrote:
> > > Thats right,
> > >
> > > as i know its result of special interests of
> switzerland.
> > > the shown situation is from val di lei.
> > >
>

http://www.home.pages.at/maxifant/Frames/val-di-lei.htm

>
> (german)
> > > when the wall had been build, switzerland wanted
> to save
> this wall
> > by itself,
> > > because in the case the wall would be hit (by a
> bomb or
> whatever)
> > all the water would come to the val di Avers in
> Switzerland.
> > > so now switzerland can save the wall with own
> guns,...
> > >
> > > regards, chris
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Artur Kroc
> > > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:07 PM
> > > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Strange section chit
> border
> > >
> > >
> > > This section looks strange - like african
> borders - like made
> by
> > ruler...
>
> straight looking sections of borders are actually
> fairly common
> everywhere
>
> indeed they occur wherever a border runs directly
> between 2
> markers
> or in other words
> just about everywhere there is a manmade rather than
> a natural
> delineation
>
> & that means the great majority of the individual
> delineations in
> the world
>
> it is just that a much larger scale map is needed to
> see most of
> them
>
>
>
>
>

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