thanx
this goes a good ways toward the desired end
since i think we can safely rule europe out entirely
at least
based on your data here
& perhaps you could also see if you recognize any
noneuropean country highpoint peak names in the list
beginning 2 scroll clicks down in
http://egroups.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/770
since these account for practically all other
potential candidates
--- Roger_Rowlett <
roger.rowlett@...>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In 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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