here are some earnest egjosy tries
probably class e just off frame to the right
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/compress/2002/267/
37.htm
possibly class d or just off frame to the right
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/compress/2002/267/
34.htm
class e just off frame to the left
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/compress/2002/267/
38.htm
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > I would fancy a holliday to Eilat, which would mean new
border
> crossings for me:
> >
> > EGIL and ILJO, and a class e EGILJO, and JOSA does not
> seem too far away.
> >
> > On the border crossing hitlist
> (http://www.nicolette.dk/hitlist/borderhitlist1.php)
> > EGIL and ILJO are fairly popular crossings, but going down
to
> JOSA has not been done.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Jesper
>
> good question
>
> ibs number 60 explains the entire josa alignment is sheerest
> desert with maybe a pipeline the most interesting thing on it
>
> & the coastal plain on the gulf of aqaba is very narrow
> so there is no paradise just there like eilat or taba or aqabah
>
> & the josa west terminal point was unknown at that time
> except as
> exactly 300 meters south of some lost police station
> & maybe still is
>
> however
> it was always approximately known
> just neglected
>
> & as for your unasked question
> about egjosa
> i believe it is a still hypothetical equidistance tripoint
> in the middle of the gulf of aqaba
> at very roughly nlat 29d22m & elong 34d54m
> & directly opposite a possibly archeological feature in egypt
> named hashemesh pools
>
> but there are no known pix of even a class d visit