Subject: Re: AW: AW: [BoundaryPoint] The easternmost point in Europe
Date: Nov 16, 2004 @ 21:05
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@...>)
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Rather too good about those who don't.

--- Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@...> wrote:

> Of course that would never suffice; too bad about
> those who wish for natural disasters...
>
> --- Wolfgang Schaub
> <Wolfgang.Schaub@...> wrote:
>
> > Flooding is REALLY happening - against George W.
> > Bush's perception. Check
> > "DVR90" in google, and "history", and you will
> come
> > to sites that explain
> > why Denmark decided to change its nationwide
> > triangulation system, away from
> > a fix zero level (by convention in Esbjerg
> harbour)
> > to a flexible zero level
> > (determined as the average of 10 levels along
> > Denmark's coastline over the
> > past 100 years). This was because sea has risen by
> > 14.6 cm between 1990 and
> > 2002, at least in Esbjerg harbour.
> >
> > Sea may rise, but it will NOT suffice to drown
> > America.
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Michael Kaufman
> > [mailto:mikekaufman79@...]
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2004 07:02
> > An: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Betreff: Re: AW: [BoundaryPoint] The easternmost
> > point in Europe
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 Panama.
> > >
> > > 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
> > > Rmo
> > > 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 Panama, 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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