hopefully a correction of the maritime boundaries address in text
below
http://www.maritimeboundaries.com
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079"
<barbaria_longa@h...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Artur Kroc"
<kroc@i...>
> wrote:
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Stavro Blofeld
> > <blofeld_es@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> > . This is, to my knowledge, the only point in
> > > > the world
> > > > (quadruple point) where four countries meet at one
> > > > point...
> > Only one?
>
> not even 1 for sure artur
> the above title & local informant to the contrary notwithstanding
>
> as i mentioned in messages 13416 & 13417 & 13419
> to which the long encyclopedia article covering this was
attached
> the best available nutshell answer to the original question is
> maybe sometimes
>
> & this uncertainty & this transiency are owing to the known fact
> that at least 2 of the 4 convergent borders dont stand still but
> constantly move about
> by definition
> with the living thalwegs of rivers
>
> & there is far from any certainty that everything has ever lined
up
> there to form an exact quadripoint even for a fleeting moment
>
> very much likelier are a pair of tripoints with a very short
> botswana zambia border between them
> all moving about as specified
> to be sure
> but with no contact at all between namibia & zimbabwe
>
> trust me on this one
> or do the reading
>
> more below
>
> I think, that another one is maritime quadripoint: Nauru,
> > Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati.
> > http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_map/oceania.gif
> > http://www.worldstadiums.com/oceania/maps/oceania.shtml
> > Is it true?
>
> these are not actually international boundary lines but
> allocational lines that simply group all the islands correctly
>
> the boundaries of the actual territorial seas of these countries
> are generally about 12 nautical miles from land
> & those of their exclusive economic zones are generally up to
an
> additional 188 nautical miles
>
> a map of these actual borders is shown at
> http://www.maritimeboundaries.com
> & there are no known quadripoints among them either
>
> more to come in another message