Altheia:
Thanks for the nice comments.
Anyway several years ago I set up a page on the highest points of
Europe based on a version of the CIA Factbook and extrapolating the
longitude/latitude from expediamaps.
I set up a map:
http://americasroof.com/europe.shtml
The list:
http://americasroof.com/world/europe-highest.shtml
It seems like there should be a better more devoted list. But I
can't find one (and if you know of a better highpoint list let me
know!). If you have a specific mountain in mind, a good source is:
http://summitpost.org
I can't vouch for the accuracy of my information but it might be a
start for you.
Roger.
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> thanx roger
> & thats a great site you have there too
>
> i would only add about nmoktx that it is indeed much
> closer to the 103rd meridian than txnw is
> & may well have been intended to fall precisely on
> that meridian
> yet the tripoint as we know it still falls west of
> longitude 103
> i believe
> by about 8 seconds
> or several hundred feet
>
> also
> back to the supposedly meridional nmtx sector
> any apparent 2 or 3 minute westward drift in many 19th
> century survey lines such as this one was owing more
> to the use of the similarly offset washington meridian
> on which they were based than to any survey error
>
> survey error by that period was usually measurable in
> seconds rather than minutes
> just as the abovementioned drift of meridional nmok
> actually is
>
>
> & about these nmtx follies generally
> of course all our state line imbroglios are even more
> ridiculous than the international ones
> but it is nice to see something as real as hydraulics
> underlying at least one of these too
> for your links do clearly identify water as the
> madness behind the method in this case as well
>
> funniest & craziest of all tho is the fact that if nm
> ever were to prevail legally about some historical
> shift of the rio grande determining who other than
> texas really owns el paso
> well in that case el paso would revert not to new
> mexico at all but to chihuahua
>
> only if the 32nd parallel sector of nmtx westward of
> longitude 103 were adjusted much farther to the south
> for which there is no possible reason nor even any
> cockamamie excuse
> could el paso fall into a thereby enlarged new mexico
>
> so the more you look at this one
> the more hilarious it only gets
>
>
> but your site reminds me to ask you &or any other
> highpointers whether you have any news
> or any data at all for that matter
> on any country highpoints that may also serve
> simultaneously as tricountry points
>
> we are aware of numerous tricountry points that are
> situated on summits of locally supreme peaks
> but have not yet been able to establish which if any
> of these might also be a highpoint of a country
>
>
> --- Roger_Rowlett <roger.rowlett@a...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have an article with several links on my
> > americasroof blog on this:
> >
> http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2005/03/13/new-mexico-sues-
texas/
> >
> > The upshot is that New Mexico's own fiscal analysis
> > of this bill to
> > claim land 3 miles east of the current border to the
> > 103rd meridian
> > would probably be considered frivolous since the
> > Courts have ruled
> > that if a state border goes unchallenged for "a long
> > course of years"
> > then it becomes the defacto border. Texas permitted
> > New Mexico to
> > enter the Union in 1912 on condition of dropping the
> > claim.
> > Ironically though the Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas
> > tripoint jogs in to
> > the meridian.
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> > McManus"
> > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > > The Commissioner of the General Land Office of the
> > State of Texas
> > has proposed a
> > > "free-for-all brawl" between the Senates of the
> > two states over the
> > lost land
> > > that New Mexico is griping about.
> > >
> > > See the third of three subtopics in the article at
> > > http://tinyurl.com/6mb7d .
> > >
> > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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