Have we seen this BOCLPE before?
--- Peter Smaardijk <smaardijk@...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
> <aletheiak@y...>
> wrote:
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> Smaardijk"
> > <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> Smaardijk"
> > > <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper
> Nielsen"
> > > <jesniel@i...>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Is this an official border marker or a sign?
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.svenbugarski.de/travel/South%
> > > > 20America/Bolivien/Bolivien.html
> > > > >
> > > > > Jesper
> > > >
> > > > I don't know, but the thing in the background
> might be a
> > marker.
> > > > Compare:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.sahara-mike.de/Chile_1992_e_p2.htm
> > > >
> >
>
http://www.region.com.ar/pehuenche/randonee/2003/fotos.htm
> > > > http://www.ruta0.com/locs.asp?loc=372
> > > >
> > > > (First is on BOCL, last two on ARCL)
> > >
> > > And some more:
> > > http://www.difrol.cl/0111.htm (CLPE)
> > >
> http://www.coronadelinca.com.ar/trav_volcancito.htm
> (ARCL)
> > > http://www.earg.gov.ar/tdf.htm (Tierra del Fuego
> revisited...)
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> >
> > also the flat square stone in the foreground at
> the feet of the
> > people slouching over the railway style sign could
> be an
> > intermediate or road stone employed to mark the
> point where the
> > border crosses the railroad right of way
> > as the photographer is likely standing upon &
> shooting down
> > from an elevated rail bed
> >
> > so maybe 2 real markers plus 1 sign
>
> Yes, that is possible, but the stone would be an
> intermediate marker.
> Cf.
>
http://www.ciberutem.cl/Directores/LIMITES-CHILE_BOLIVIA.pdf
> (at the
> bottom of the document):
> "En la actualidad la frontera Chile-Bolivia, desde
> el Hito V,
> Trifinio Bolivia-Chile-Per� al Sur R�o Ca�o, hasta
> el Hito 1-LXXXV,
> Cerro Zapaleri, trifinio Chile-Bolivia-Argentina ,
> se encuentra
> demarcada por 146 Hitos de Hierro y uno de Hormig�n
> (Hito V), en una
> extensi�n territorial aproximada de frontera de 850
> kil�metros."
> (=BOCL is marked by 146 iron markers, and one
> concrete one, which
> happens to be BOCLPE)
>
> Peter
>
>
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