oddly enough the head of the rogue looks like a place called
boundary springs
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=43.06639&lon=-122.22917
cant get away from the buggers
but i will have the pleasure of testing empirically all the highest
confluences & as many distinctly roguish headspring draughts as
possible until finally deciding the real veritas caput for myself
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
wrote:
>
> nice one andrew
> at the crosshairs of the americas
> hahahahaha
> looks like an inca pyramid there too
> i love it
>
> not to mention that the original & main bridge over the canal in
> panama city is called the bridge of the americas too
>
> but ya gotta believe
>
>
> & meanwhile i have returned as always to the greater cape perpetua
> area
> finding my old rostah mon still not at home again
> but conceiving here today also a new mega exciting plan
> rather than hanging around anywhere even this fantastic very long
> during the height of trypointing season
>
> specifically it is to perform a sawanabori of the golden rogue
river
> at least from its mouth at gold beach to its vortex at gold hill
> & to then consider the sequel of this most golden & roguish
> probability proceeding from there onward & upward
> while also generally megapointing my way onward & downward to my
> other regular cay
> namely mig torch key
> in the lower keys
> in time for the prospective 86ing of prohibition celebration
already
> announced & scheduled for 16jan05 there
>
> tho it is already an admittedly ambitious plan
> i should tell you i have also conceived several additional
exciting
> surprise interludes within it too
>
> yes i know that is staggering on this much bc bud
>
> but right now i am just trying to figure out where the true head
of
> the rogue is
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Andrew T. Patton
<andrew@A...>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:14:57 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >While the NGS has often furnished its maps of Europe and Asia
> with a green line
> > >separating the two, I have never seen them do the same for the
> two Americas or
> > >for Asia and Africa.
> > >
> > >I would suggest that the COPA political boundary is an
> unacceptable limit
> > >between the Americas for at least the following reasons:
> > >
> > >1. Were there not two Americas prior to the 1903 independence
of
> Panamá from
> > >Colombia?
> > >
> > >2. Nowhere does the NGS's Europe-Asia boundary follow a
political
> boundary.
> > >
> > >I would, rather, suggest the narrowest part of the isthmus.
That
> would be even
> > >with the Golfo de San Blas.
> > >
> > >However, an excellent argument can be made that the continental
> limit should be
> > >across the lowest part of the cordillera that runs the length
of
> the isthmus.
> > >That is, indeed, where the Americas would become two separate
> land masses if sea
> > >level were to rise sufficiently. (This thinking is influenced
by
> the actual
> > >experience at the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
at
> the end of the
> > >most recent ice age, and perhaps at the Strait of Gibraltar,
the
> Dardanelles,
> > >and the Bosporus at various times in prehistory.) This lowest
> part of Panamá is
> > >the approximate location of the canal.
> > >
> > >Between Asia and Africa, both the narrowest and lowest parts of
> the Isthmus of
> > >Suez are the approximate location of the canal there.
> > >
> > >So, we can add Panamá and Egypt to Russia, Kazakhstan,
> Azerbaijan, Georgia, and
> > >Turkey in the list of countries with continuous
intercontinental
> sovereignty.
> >
> > I would suggest the middle of the Panama Canal as the effective
> > boundary now. (Interesting tidbit -- Construction of the Panama
> Canal
> > was completed 70 Years ago yesterday).
> >
> >
> > I went to Panama about a year ago and made a complete transit of
> the
> > Canal. During the transit, I took the attached picture. It is the
> > crossing of the Continental Divide while in the middle of the
> Canal -
> > so I am at the intersection of the border between N/S America
and
> the
> > border between the Atlantic/Pacific Sides of the Americas. The
> picture
> > is of the South American part of the Continental Divide. More
> photos
> > of Panama can be found at www.andrewpatton.com/panama
> >
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew T. Patton (andrew@A...)
> > Travelogues and Photos at http://www.AndrewPatton.com - Latest
> Entry: Panama