From the aerial photo, it appears not to conform to any surface features, but
rather cuts across some woods and a meadow in a valley bottom. Perhaps its
nothing more than a cadastral vestige from long ago.

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig" <trehala@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:08 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Western Espoo

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> The western city boundary of Espoo (a city west of Helsinki)
> features a very narrow needle-like appendage. I found an on-line map
> of Espoo and one can zoom in to find this needle here:
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> http://kartat.espoo.fi/internetwebmap/
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> Best to look for the city name Kauniainen/Grankulla on the little
> map on the home page in the bottom right, then take the yellow road
> west. The needle is just to the north of this. Click on it and zoom
> in for a better view.
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> I own a large city transit map of Espoo and Kauniainen (a city
> within a city) and can confirm it's the same kind of border jog.
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> Any ideas why the western border would stick out like this? Talk
> about narrow! At the maximum zoom the mini-reverse-Caprivi-Strip
> looks as though there is nary a metre between the boundary lines
> (this at the 200 m level).
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> Craig Rowland
> Mississauga, Ontario
> Just back from cycling Bornholm
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