Subject: bfbjne
Date: Feb 02, 2006 @ 17:46
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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bfbjne
at the w of the niger tricountry national park

burkina faso benin niger

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=11.924065886779028&TextLongitude=2.4328720592892097&TextAltitude=10&TextSelectedEntity=245&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=parc+national+du+w+du+niger&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on&ResultsListbox=12.2850130289377%3B-1.74604213194367%3B4%3B245%3BBurkina+Faso%2C+Africa%3BLarge%3BComprehensive


a distillation from brownlie

tripoint was not precisely fixed as of 1979
but is situated in the mekrou river at about
n lat 11d 54m 15s &
e long 2d 25m 10s

it was formerly a vague french colonial administrative
trijunction in a
remote wilderness area

no official instrument describes its situation very
clearly
tho it is depicted on maps at the end of a straight
line sector of the
niger burkina faso boundary
nor is there even any indication whether the tripoint
falls along the
thalweg or median line of the river


but
the icj ruled in 2005
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idocket/ibn/ibnframe.htm
it is indeed the median line
& specifically
at
rather than merely about
the above geolocation

datum unspecified


photo of the gorges of the mekrou in w national park
on bjne or bfbj near tripoint
http://aeroclubouaga.ifrance.com/aeroclubouaga/photo.htm



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