I can see that it's still interesting to check these places out,
despite thier 'inauthenticity', if you will.
It's just that Kurdistan is a special case, especially now with the
new government in Iraq. I was reading about this and apparently huge
numbers of Iraqi Kurds want to see a Kurdish state set up, yet are
happy to take part in Iraqi politics for the time being.
All borders and reuslting tripoints are artificial of course, but
some are more artificial then others. of course, Middle Eastern
borders are all straight lines in the desert, but the seperate states
are there now for better or worse. The Kurds would never have agreed
to be split in four, hence these borders aren't just the usual line
in the sand type but actually divide a people which just makes them
seem overly-artificial, to me anyway.
As a sidenote,
I'd be interested to see Iraq's other tripoints. Surely there must be
some images now? (there are now huge numbers of border images
following the war - see GoogleImages).
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
wrote:
>
> thats an interesting point
> whether one agrees with it or not
>
> & it might also be fun to look for iqsytr classmates
> in similarly integral tricountry areas around the world
>
> like say afirpk
> baluchistan perhaps
> etc
>
> sort of like azcanv in the usa really being just
> mohave stan
>
> or manyvt really being just
> williams college stan
>
> or algatn really being just
> tva stan
>
> etc if any
>
> for it is easy to overreach in the excitement for less & less
> authenticity of stanhood
> like say by assigning ilinmi & ilmiwi to
> lake michigan stan
> which i think would overdilute your basic nicety too much
>
> for it seems any list of truly integral triareas like iqsytr
> on any given level
> must be rather short & sweet at best
> & probably always subject to some degree of arbitrariness
> but perhaps still worth a look & a try
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "sdrawkcabdom"
> <sdrawkcab8@h...> wrote:
> >
> > This tripoint is not as 'important' in my view - it's Kurdistan
> > rather than three different countries.
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
> <aletheiak@y...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > this was a couple of years ago
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
> > > <orc@o...> wrote:
> > > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> > > <jesniel@i...>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Possible tripoint island at IQSYTR:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/EART/iraq/200k/J38_25.jpg
> > > >
> > > > bravo
> > > > it looks plausible from here
> > > > & could be unique in the world
> > >
> > > but on second thought
> > > since all 3 of the pertinent ibs numbers for iqsytr
> > > namely 27 & 100 & 163
> > > place the boundaries on the thalwegs here
> > > without qualification or exception
> > > it would not appear so plausible after all
> > >
> > > & in any case
> > > not nearly so plausible as a bggrtr tripoint on kavak island
> now
> > > appears
> > > which really stands to be unique in the world to the best of
> our
> > > knowledge
> > > despite being contradicted also by all 3 of the pertinent ibs
> > > numbers
> > > namely 41 & 49 & 56