This Two Ocean Creek illustrates one of the several unexpected situations that
can arise when using drainage divides as boundaries. Divides are seldom as
simple as imagined by diplomats at the delimitation stage.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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From: "Dave Patton [DCP]" <dpatton@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] question for dave or anyone
> At 01:12 AM 2004/07/12, BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:21:56 -0000
> > From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
> >Subject: question for dave or anyone
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> >has anyone ever found a stream confluence anywhere that is
> >situated at integral degrees of both latitude & longitude
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> >by any standard datum
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> I presume you are asking because then there would be a
> "confluence at the confluence"?
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> I don't recall any such visit, but I'll ask the other
> regional coordinators if they remember anything like that.
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> The only thing that came to my mind is the 44N 110W visit:
> http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=44&lon=-110
> where on the way to the confluence the visitors went through
> Two Ocean Pass:
> Just over the top we crossed Trail Creek and followed it north
> about 4 more miles to Two Ocean Pass, which officially marks the
> Continental Divide. Here we detoured off the main trail about a
> quarter mile to see Parting of the Waters Natural Landmark.
> Two Ocean Creek appears no different from the hundreds of other
> streams flowing down out of the mountains here, yet somehow it
> happens to naturally split into two streams heading off in opposite
> directions. Water flowing down Atlantic Creek goes east along a
> 3,488 mile path through the Platte, Missouri and Mississippi rivers,
> into the Gulf of Mexico and finally to the Atlantic Ocean.
> Pacific Creek likewise heads west ending up in its namesake
> 1,353 miles away.
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> --
> Dave Patton
> Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
> http://www.confluence.org/
> My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/
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