Subject: Re: brits advise suspending all nonessential cfsdtd visit tries at this time
Date: Dec 29, 2005 @ 03:37
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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aha
here luckily
before we do suspend the try
is at least the closest known village
named moro chad
which you can see at encarta is situated about 20 km nw of the target
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images/684/140545.jpg

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
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> http://www.harolddoan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7560
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> http://home.worldonline.dk/jesniel/border/african_tripoints.htm#cftdsd
> description from brownlie
> about 2 thirds of the way down the page
> under central african republic chad sudan
> makes it clear this tripoint would be hard to find
> even under the best of circumstances
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> & it has proved essentially elusive so far in any case
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> encarta shows the mentioned nzili & identifies the
> westward flowing stream as bahr aouk
> & even shows a road crossing the cftd border about a
> kilometer west of the tripoint
> hopefully here if it is working
> http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?
TextLatitude=9.86024557381537&TextLongitude=20.8421922989457&TextAltitude=6&
TextSelectedEntity=1750&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Medium
&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=nzili&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomO
nMapClickCheck=on
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> ibs numbers 15 & 16 & 83 & their maps all add various
> other data too
> http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/numericalibs-template.html
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> but none of these or any of the other nearby place
> names produce any pix at google
> tho of course you can get the usual satpic
> http://maps.google.com/maps?
q=sudan&ll=10.932849,22.887182&spn=1.278356,2.635345&t=h&hl=en
> which is worth a few more zooms if you can keep your
> eye on the spot after the borders vanish
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> but thats about it
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> terra totally incognita
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> so i guess thats nonessential enough to suspend now
> unless you can come up with anything better
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