I wouldn't take credit for "discovering" a tripoint that was written
down in some publication. After a negative experience trying to be a
rummager at the UN library here in DC, I bought a UN law book on
delimiting water boundaries and subscribed to access to the treaty
series - what a treasure trove of links and maps. Your UN link is
interesting, because it shows for free some of what I'm paying to get.
The Florida site is also a wonderful and free disappointment - they
seem to have taken the plums from the State Dept Geographer's archives
(or found them growing in a judge's librarty) and put them in one
place. I guess a discovery is no good if it's found being lifted and
duplicated all over the place.
LN
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@y...>
wrote:
> --- "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
>
> > I came across an analysis of this maritime border
> > treaty of Mar 28,
> > 1978. It says the US-Venezuela border starts at the
> > tripoint between
> > the US, Venezuela and Neth. Ant, "approx 67 miles"
> > equidistant from
> > each territory, but won't be fixed until there is a
> > boundary agreement
> > with "a third party" (obviously Netherlands). It
> > says that under no
> > circumstance, will the tripoint be any further west
> > than
> > 15.14.28 N
> > 68.51.44
>
> ahoi & thanx
> very nice
>
> evidently from
> http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/LS091.pdf
> which conveys more or less the same impression
>
> indeed the first step of a tripoint ballet
>
> & not only does there appear to be no third party on
> stage yet
> but the wording also seems to indicate there was no
> nlus or nlve boundary convergent at the time either
>
>
> & indeed 3 days later in
> http://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/
> PDFFILES/TREATIES/VEN-NLD1978BD.PDF
> the nlve convergent was also delineated as
> an arc of maximum circumference from a specified
> penultimate point
> to precisely the point you have stated
> & the agreement adds on page 2 under sector c
> or that point on said maximum circumference that
> represents the boundary with third nations
>
> so there you have a very distinct second movement
> in what had by then already become a pas de trois
> & we are apparently just waiting for nlus to arrive
> as you say
> obviously
>
> until we check the equidistance diagram
> http://www.veridian.com/offerings/images/maritime_large.jpg
> which indicates not nlus but dove must be the 3rd
> convergent
>
> & indeed on 3 march 1979 came a dominican venezuelan
> agreement
>
http://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/VEN-DOM1979SA.PDF
> which also mentions your exact point as the tripoint
>
> yikes
> & so does that mean you have discovered a new
> quadripoint
>
> but no
> not likely
>
> for the legal multipoint you have actually found there
> is apparently not necessarily nlusve at all
> but only donlve
>
> thus far anyway
>
> & probably no chance of donlusve ever
>
>
> the difficulty is that dous & donl too have no
> agreements but are still only hypothetical
> & your usve does definitely overlap dove
>
> in fact all of dove literally overflies usve
>
> isnt that lovely
>
> for note how they both proceed eastward from your
> precise point
> to the same precise next point 15d12m51s x 68d28m56s
> which the dominican republic would like to think is
> dousve
>
> fantastic
>
> & so there most probably will never be any nlusve in
> this dance
> since
> owing to the constraints of equidistance
> there will probably never be any more nlus than that
> lovely reach between saba & st croix you have just
> correctly implied at gbnlus
> in your other equally beautiful & appreciated offering
> du jour
>
>
>
> & for extra credit
> since the south tripoint there on gbus in the virgins
> is indeed gbnlus
> as you say
> then what is the matching tripoint at the other end of
> that cute little stitch
>
>
>
>
>
>
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