Subject: Re: egiljo<br/>
Date: Jun 13, 2004 @ 03:02<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1313574401">from msg 14195 of 26 may<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; the maritime sector of iljo has already been fully agreed & plotted <br/>
&gt; on the basis of equidistance <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; & the maritime sector of egil has not yet been agreed or plotted <br/>
&gt; but can be hypothetically estimated <br/>
&gt; also on the basis of equidistance<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; in fact it appears the makers of the iljo boundary may have <br/>
&gt; already computed its terminal point to coincide with the <br/>
&gt; hypothetical location of the egiljo equidistance tripoint<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; this iljo terminal point is specified in the iljo treaty as <br/>
&gt; nlat 29d27m12s1667 by elong 34d55m16s3595<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>& by careful plotting & measurement on the best available map <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/israel/50k/08-36-094-4.jpg">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/israel/50k/08-36-094-4.jpg</a><br/>
the above cited point does indeed appear to fall equidistant from the <br/>
coasts of all 3 countries<br/>
<br/>
& tho such a bilaterally determined tripoint remains only theoretical <br/>
until actually accepted by the third party <br/>
in this case egypt<br/>
still it is already very putatively the eventual egiljo tripoint<br/>
<br/>
if you would like to touch it with your finger or cursor tip<br/>
the location is about 5 meters south & about 436 meters east <br/>
or in other words a hair below & just under half a box to the right <br/>
of the kilometric grid intersection that falls directly beneath the <br/>
middle letter of the russian word akaba<br/>
 <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; the following pic is said to show an egyptian border guard <br/>
&gt; standing where egil hits the beach near taba<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.strassbergdesign.net/images/egypt5.jpg">http://www.strassbergdesign.net/images/egypt5.jpg</a><br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; tho not visible<br/>
&gt; there may still be a 1912 marker there near the point of ras taba <br/>
&gt; per ibs number 46<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>on second perusal<br/>
perhaps we can see the terminal rock right there on the beach after all<br/>
near the middle left edge of the photo<br/>
 <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; in the pic<br/>
&gt; presumably egypt is at right & israel at left<br/>
&gt; with jordan visible thru the haze on the opposite coast<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; thus the hypothetical egiljo tripoint is likely in frame <br/>
&gt; perpendicular to the coast & halfway across the gulf<br/>
&gt; at a distance of about 5km<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>& now that i have seen the map & compared the photo to it<br/>
this is almost certainly a class d visit<br/>
with the tip of the gun barrel perhaps marking the very tripoint<br/>
as nearly as i would dare to guess</div>