Nice. Especially if this is marked in the tunnel.
Looks as if the Mt. Blanc tunnel may be the one, at
least of what we have found.
And for lowest marked border wrt sea level...IL-JO
near Dead Sea (about 1360 feet below sea level and
sinking according to
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/01/01162002/ap_46136.asp)?
--- "Lowell G. McManus" <
mcmanus71496@...> wrote:
> The T�nel Internacional Cristo Redentor ( photo at
> http://es.geocities.com/viajesnx650/cristo.html ) on
> a highway under the ARCL
> (Argentina-Chile) boundary in the Andes is at 3,175
> meters (10,417 feet) above
> sea level. The Cristo Redento monument on the
> boundary where the original
> highway crossed the Paso Uspallata or Bermejo is
> reported as being 4,400 meters
> (14,436 feet) in elevation (impressive photo of
> recent centennial ceremony at
> http://www.embargentina.cl/docu/acto.htm ).
> Therefore, the tunnel would have to
> be at least 1,225 meters below the surface, even if
> it was directly under the
> pass. Nearby peaks rise to 6,959 meters (22,831
> feet). There is an abandoned
> 19th-century railway tunnel that closely parallels
> this one.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6:50 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: AT-DE divided mine -
> deepest boundary marker?
>
>
> I didn't read into the German articles about the
> borders in the mine
> tunnels, but tunnels led me to think about the road
> and rail tunnels
> that cross borders. It'd be interesting to know the
> relationships
> between the depths of border markers in mines vs. in
> tunnels.
>
> For example, the French - Italian border marker at
> ca. km 7.7 on the
> road in the Mt Blanc tunnel is at about 1300 meters
> above sea level,
> but about 2,700 meters below the Earth's surface at
> that point. Then
> there are the Swiss - Italian tunnels Gotthard and
> Simplon.
>
> Len Nadybal
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> Smaardijk"
> <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Michael
> Kaufman
> > <mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> > >
>
http://pramhus.com/AUSTRIA/salt_mines_at_hallein_this_is_a_.htm
> >
> >
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/3apad
> >
> > http://www.salzburg.gv.at/ul200301_34.pdf
> > (Part of "Grenzf�lle" series in "Unser Land"
> journal; search
> > for "Grenzf�lle" at the Salzburg fed. land website
> (
> > http://www.salzburg.gv.at/index.htm - Search box
> at top left of page)
> > for more interesting articles (in German).)
> >
> > Peter S.
>
>
>
>
>
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