Subject: Re: Eilat<br/>
Date: May 30, 2004 @ 22:55<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-262130541">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Jesper Nielsen&quot; <br/>
&lt;jesniel@i...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I would fancy a holliday to Eilat, which would mean new border <br/>
 </span></blockquote>crossings for me:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; EGIL and ILJO, and a class e EGILJO, and JOSA does not <br/>
 </span></blockquote>seem too far away.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; On the border crossing hitlist <br/>
 </span></blockquote>(<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nicolette.dk/hitlist/borderhitlist1.php)">http://www.nicolette.dk/hitlist/borderhitlist1.php)</a><br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; EGIL and ILJO are fairly popular crossings, but going down to <br/>
 </span></blockquote>JOSA has not been done. <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; Why?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Jesper<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>good question<br/>
<br/>
ibs number 60 explains the entire josa alignment is sheerest <br/>
desert with maybe a pipeline the most interesting thing on it<br/>
<br/>
& the coastal plain on the gulf of aqaba is very narrow <br/>
so there is no paradise just there like eilat or taba or aqabah<br/>
<br/>
& the josa west terminal point was unknown at that time<br/>
except as <br/>
exactly 300 meters south of some lost police station<br/>
& maybe still is<br/>
<br/>
however<br/>
it was always approximately known <br/>
just neglected<br/>
<br/>
& as for your unasked question<br/>
about egjosa<br/>
i believe it is a still hypothetical equidistance tripoint<br/>
in the middle of the gulf of aqaba<br/>
at very roughly nlat 29d22m & elong 34d54m<br/>
& directly opposite a possibly archeological feature in egypt <br/>
named hashemesh pools<br/>
<br/>
but there are no known pix of even a class d visit</div>