In such big flooding, wouldn't much of Europe
disappear too?
Yikes!
And I have quite a few more tripoints still to visit!
--- Wolfgang Schaub
<
Wolfgang.Schaub@...> wrote:
> "Given sufficient rise in sea level":
>
> What a nice concept! Given sufficient rise in sea
> level I would -
> virtually - be the winner, having been on top of
> Cerro di Aconcagua, highest
> peak of the Americas and the entire world outside of
> Asia, on the 17th
> January 1997. And knowing all America drowned - no
> further comment.
>
> Wolfgang
>
> PS: Didn't mean this personally, Lowell
> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Lowell G. McManus
> [mailto:mcmanus71496@...]
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2004 09:26
> An: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: [BoundaryPoint] The easternmost point
> in Europe
>
>
> I was totally wrong earlier tonight when I wrote
> that the first break
> between
> the Americas, given sufficient rise in sea level,
> would be at the
> approximate
> location of the canal in Panam�.
>
> Before the excavation of the Culebra or Gaillard
> Cut across the lowest
> point in
> the Panamanian cordillera, the elevation there was
> 333.5 feet. A few
> hundred
> miles to the northwest, however, one can go from
> the Caribbean Sea, up the
> R�o
> San Juan, and into Lake Nicaragua, which has a
> natural surface elevation
> of 110
> feet and a bottom well below sea level. This lake
> is separated from the
> Pacific
> Ocean by the narrow Isthmus of Rivas, the lowest
> point on which is only
> 154 feet
> above sea level. This, then, is where the Central
> American Land Bridge
> would
> first breech if sea level were to rise.
>
> Since I am hardly prepared to accept Costa Rica as
> a South American
> nation, I
> will revert to the narrowest point on the Isthmus
> of Panam�, a dozen or so
> miles
> east of the canal, as the appropriate division.
>
> To accept the juncture of the tectonic Caribbean
> and South American plates
> as
> the limit between North and South America would
> put the northern fringes
> of
> Colombia and Venezuela in the former. I don't
> think that we want to do
> that
> either. Furthermore, this plate juncture is
> invisible on the surface.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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