Subject: byplua<br/>
Date: Dec 20, 2005 @ 02:42<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1267737010">nice going peter & jimi<br/>
& i see parts of the canal are still visible by satpic<br/>
here<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=poland&ll=51.508742,23.646011&spn=0.025324,0.082355&t=h&hl=en">http://maps.google.com/maps?q=poland&ll=51.508742,23.646011&spn=0.025324,0.082355&t=h&hl=en</a><br/>
as you can judge if you compare it with the russky<br/>
topo<br/>
so all else being equal <br/>
the canal ought to still be visible at surface level<br/>
in the tripoint area too<br/>
<br/>
--- Peter Smaardijk &lt;smaardijk@...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; BYPLUA:<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fuw.edu.pl/aw2p2/misc/konpol/sobibor.html">http://www.fuw.edu.pl/aw2p2/misc/konpol/sobibor.html</a><br/>
&gt; &quot;The exact tripoint is relatively difficult to find,<br/>
&gt; since the<br/>
&gt; Bielorussian-Ukrainian border runs on the other side<br/>
&gt; of the Bug and<br/>
&gt; the respective boundary markers can only be seen<br/>
&gt; from a distance, and<br/>
&gt; the sight is blocked by vegetation as well.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>HI! There may be other reasons it&#39;s hard to find too.<br/>
According to both this old Soviet map:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/x-ussr/100k/M-34-024.jpg">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/x-ussr/100k/M-34-024.jpg</a><br/>
and this not-so-old Belarussian text (and visit try<br/>
report):<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/6968">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/6968</a><br/>
the BYPLUA tripoint is situated, at least<br/>
historically, where the south edge of the Mostickij<br/>
Canal would intersect the middle of the Western Bug<br/>
River. Nor am I aware of anything more official or<br/>
more up to date regarding its presumed or actual<br/>
location ... which is thus, evidently, not in<br/>
alignment with either of the nearby Poland-USSR marker<br/>
pairs Number 1122 and 1123. But I examined these<br/>
zoomable photos anyway for evidence of this canal; and<br/>
seeing none, wonder if it too could have gotten so<br/>
overgrown, or if there is at least any allusion to it<br/>
in the Polish text, as it purports to point out what<br/>
could still very well be an elusive objective?<br/>
Cheers,<br/>
Jimi<br/>
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