nice play jimi & jesper
as it looks like you really have found all the
sharpest available instruments

& tho further improvement may well be possible from
here
like say somewhere in these 7 volumes for starters
http://www.archiveeditions.co.uk/Leafcopy%5C585-6.htm
it would need a helping angel or a trip to a major
library
or a few grand as usual

so maybe someone should just drive over & take the
picture already

things may have improved in the past 15 years since
this writeup
http://www.tec.army.mil/research/products/desert_guide/laxopcom/OC_mandaville.htm
which ends tantalizingly at the closest known locality
to the tripoint

but the even closer road & border crossing shown on
the tactical pilotage chart appear to be confirmed by
this zoomable map too
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=29.07822008272294&TextLongitude=46.67261749384265&TextAltitude=10&TextSelectedEntity=136&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=ar+ruq%27i&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on&ResultsListbox=29.4270367559212%3B47.4520015982332%3B6%3B136%3BKuwait%2C+Middle+East%3BLarge%3BComprehensive
which suggests one might just walk the last kilometer
down the wadi

also
tho the tripoint & marker are reportedly or supposedly
on the thalweg
it is hard to imagine them not being trashed or washed
away in the first flood
so i would also keep an eye out for the united nations
reference markers that were also reported and
described
very possibly on higher ground

--- jim van dura <jimvandura@...> wrote:

> Hi! Realizing the Neutral Zone is long gone, but
> still
> hoping to actually see the promised tripoint, I
> followed the link to your tripoint guide, where I
> found this more credible (even if older) Soviet topo
> of the area:
>

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/kuwait/100k/H38-106.jpg

> The only substantial info I have yet found on the
> tripoint itself is in:
>

http://www.meij.or.jp/text/border/Kuwait-Iraq/irqkwt9305.htm

> . . . especially paragraphs 65, 99 and 119. However,
> IBS Number 111 for IQSA (and 103 for KWSA as well),
> while essentially agreeing with these maps' and the
> UN's IKQWSA position at the named wadi junction,
> indicate the tripoint was still unmarked as of about
> 1970. Nor have I found any evidence of the
> subsequent
> IQSA demarcation that must have emplaced the
> specified
> IQSA marker number 1 in the interim. But does anyone
> know anything more about it? Or has anyone yet
> reported a visit to or seen a photo of it? --Jimi
>
> --- Jesper Nielsen/Borderbase <jesper@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
>

http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iraq/maps/tpch_6a_se.jpg

> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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