Subject: Re: Walvis Bay Boundary Pillars
Date: Feb 02, 2005 @ 00:15
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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No "point".
No "like you to regard"
No need for a comment in response to every little message.
Messages only posted "for the record" - if it is "in the record"
there, previously, from someone else, that I perhaps missed, that's life.
LN



--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> ok
> thats ibs123 too
>
> page 5 now
>
>
> but what is your point here
> or
> what do you find remarkable in this
> that you would like us all to regard
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal"
> <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> >
> > A State Department boundary study from 1972 provides the
> following
> > about the final borders that existed around the Walvis Bay
> exclave of RSA:
> >
> > "The alignment of the Walvis Bay part of the South
> Africa–South-West
> > Africa boundary is based on the report and map of Wrey's
> survey of
> > 1885. The arbitration award of 1911 confirmed the
> demarcation from
> > pillars A through G, and the remainder of the boundary was not
> > contested at the time of or following the arbitration proceedings
> of
> > Senor Prida.
> >
> > The Walvis Bay part of the boundary is demarcated as follows:
> >
> > Pillar A, situated at Pelican Point;
> > Pillar B, 15 geographical [nautical, 6,080 ft.) miles, to the south
> of
> > the former, near the coast;
> > Pillar C, behind the mission station at Rooibank;
> > Pillars D, E, and F, between the preceding pillar and Ururas,
> marking
> > a line which separates the sand-hills from the left, or south,
> bank of
> > the River Kuisip;
> > Pillar G, on the opposite side of the same river, coinciding with
> the
> > extremity of the land asked by for Mssrs. Wilmer and Evenson
> in Ururas;
> > Pillar H, on the top of Rooikop, in the desert of Nariep;
> > Pillar J, on the top of the black rock called Nuberoff, situated on
> > the south bank of the River Swakop, at a distance of 10 miles
> > approximately from its mouth;
> > Pillars K, L, and M, following the general direction of the course
> of
> > the Swakop towards the sea; and
> > Pillar N, in Walfisch Bay, in front of the Resident's house…"
> >
> >
> > Regards to all,
> >
> > LN