I'd like to see what the inscriptions are (or at least
an account of what is written on the marker). I
wonder if a country's name has been removed while
another's has (or several others' have) been etched
in. '02 photo is really '03; subject is just wearing
2002 shirt.

--- "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...> 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@...>
> 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
>

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