well no need to postulate a greater mystery in order to solve a
lesser one
& i think a single 5country obelisk in the sea is plenty for the time
being
the so called lighthouse or beacon
whether it was mounted atop the obelisk or not
could easily have just been a small reflector or glow type
the lawn of my estate here on cream hill is littered with solar
powered night lights comprised of 6inch plastic cubes that just
stick into the ground
& the 2 blocklike forms you have spotted on the reef could easily
have come from the top of the single known obelisk
the height of which does indeed appear to have been reduced
as detailed below
by the necessary 15 or 20 percent to account for them
give or take a beacon
& were perhaps shot down by the same chinese gunboat that
perhaps shot out the light
leaving stone markers to claim sovereignty over islets
&or destroying such markers to deny it
has been a fixture thruout the china seas since 1895
after malaysia destroyed the chinese marker here
it seems to me
the least china could have done was destroy the malaysian light
anyway so little for my theory
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> A web site at
http://www.mir.com.my/potpourri/places/mpwong/destination/loui
sa/
> says of Louisa Reef, "The navigation beacon at its southwest
point is now
> defunct... The sandy patches south and west of the collapsed
beacon give
> excellent night diving." The map at
> http://www.panagadivers.com/Diving/Reefs.htm shows the
obelisk in the southwest
> of the oval reef, but the obelisk is hardly "collapsed."
>
> The large 2003 photo on the page linked last above clearly
shows two other
> manmade objects, one in the foreground of the obelisk's base
and one to the
> right. It is my theory that these are the remains of two
collapsed similar
> "obelisks" that would have served as piers for a platform
supporting the beacon.
> I see no way that a single obelisk could have hosted a
functioning navigation
> beacon. What would have powered it in the middle of the
South China Sea? A
> platform would have been necessary to support enough solar
arrays or other
> equipment to power a beacon.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 5:41 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Possible BNCNMYTWVN
5-Country Reef and Obelisk
>
>
> >
> > & 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
> >
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