On the page at
http://www.panagadivers.com/Diving/Reefs.htm , there are 1993 and
2003 photos of the obelisk, and there's a 2002 photo at
http://www.psd118.com/pics/Luconia/luconia075.htm . Therefore, it's probably
not the 1988 Chinese marker that Malaysia "promptly" removed.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:15 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Possible BNCNMYTWVN 5-Country Reef and Obelisk
> i think more likely than a memorial would be someones idea of a
> territorial marker
> functioning perhaps much like a boundary monument
> only without any boundary to show for it
> or perhaps even more like a stone flagpole & flag
>
> one source says china placed a marker on louisa reef in 1988
> & that malaysia then promptly removed it
> so presumably that refers to a different marker
>
> on another hand
> the same source said malaysia operated a lighthouse or
> beacon there too
> but a later source says the light is no longer there
>
> so perhaps the obelisk was this very beacon
> as the pyramidal top one might have expected to see on it is now
> evidently missing
> & there is apparently nothing else there permanently above sea
> level
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > Do we know the origin of this obelisk? Is it perhaps a
> memorial to those
> > shipwrecked on the reef?
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 9:46 AM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Possible BNCNMYTWVN
> 5-Country Reef and Obelisk
> >
> >
> > >
> > > so our magnificent sunken quinticountry obelisk
> > > along with all the other sunken treasure & beauty of louisa
> reef
> > > & of our beloved everyones land in general
> > > continue to grow in multidimensionality
> > > http://psd118.com/pics/Luconia