Subject: Re: exact south sudan separatist tripoints now foreseeable in 2009
Date: Oct 06, 2005 @ 16:19
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> notwithstanding the many pitfalls inherent in deep
> crystal ball gazing
> first
> an expert opinion
> http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=376&language_id=1
> namely
> that there is already a high likelihood that in 4
> years the south of sudan aka ss will vote to separate
> from the rest of the present sudan aka sd
> as allowed by the recent peace agreement
>
> second
> the historic & effective north south boundary
> in bold yellow line here
> http://www.sudanreeves.org/modules.php?
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
>
> third
> for combination with & extrapolation from the above
> map
> a map of the existing 26 states of sudan & all their
> boundaries
> revealing exactly how & where the southernmost 10
> states can be expected to flake off from the
> northermost 16
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/sudan_pol00.jpg
> producing 2 new world class tripoints
> namely
> in the west
> with the resulting rump sudan & the central african
> republic
> the putative cdsdss
> at the present trijunction of the south or janub
> darfur state
> & the west or gharb bahr al ghazal state
> with haute kotto prefecture of caf
> aka cfsd2hksdwb
> &
> in the east
> with the rump sudan & ethiopia
> the putative etsdss
> at the present tristate point of
> the blue nile or an nil al azraq state
> & the upper nile or a ali an nil state
> with the ethiopian state of beni shangul
> aka etsd2bebnun
>
> fourth
> endeavoring to zoom in further
> the former point falls roughly at center here
> http://multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?
client=public&X=2700000&Y=1000000&width=500&height=300&gride=&gridn=&srec=0
&coordsys=mercator&db=w3&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinf
osel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=0&scale=4000000&multimap.x=246&multim
ap.y=181
> slightly west of midway between jebel manda & mont
> abourassein
> & the latter point falls roughly at center here
> http://multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?
client=public&X=3800000&Y=1050000&width=500&height=300&gride=&gridn=&srec=0
&coordsys=mercator&db=w3&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinf
osel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=0&out.x=8&out.y=6&scale=1000000
> wnw of beigi & nne of daga post
>
> still more zooming reveals both are in extremely
> remote desert areas
> if nearest to the villages of azraq sudan & chesar
> ethiopia respectively
>
> & it is hard to imagine getting any closer to them in
> 4 years than we already are now
> at about 20 km of blank space from these closest known
> features
> & no known pix available even of these
>
> however
> not to worry if you were thinking of placing a
> tripoint sweepstakes bet
> for since so much else could also happen in the next 4
> years
> the odds are still rather heavily stacked against
> south sudan becoming the worlds very next new country
> & against these tripoints becoming the very next to
> join the world class
>
> in fact i would still give 10 to 1 against any of the
> above
> so maybe thats a good buy
> or even money for it to happen by the end of 2010 in
> any case
> which could be a real steal
>
>
>
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