& the height to breadth ratio of the tapered part of the obelisk has
apparently diminished substantially between 1993 & 2003
lending a hair more credence to the guess that it might once
have been topped by the beacon
rather than by any standard pyramidal capstone
for who would ever lift a capstone from an obelisk in the sea
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> 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@y...>
> 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