--- Brendan Whyte <bwhyte@...> wrote:

> there's an 8mile gap between the Egyptian border at
> Taba and the
> Hejaz border south of Aqaba, but an interesting
> history of the town
> is recounted, including Aqaba being the site for a
> brazen crusader
> attempt to ravage Araby, after using camel caravans
> to carry
> prefabricated boats from Amman to the coast, and
> assemble them there.
> It failed, but only after intervention by an
> Egyptian fleet.

thanx for understanding

& if you will click on this cropped pic so as to
extend the view to the right side of the frame
or in other words a bit farther to the south
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/compress/2002/267/08.htm
i believe you will get a distant view of the egiljo
territorial sea tripoint
in the haze at far right

& clicking similarly on this pic
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/compress/2002/267/33.htm
which will in this case extend the view westward
should give a comparable view of the egjosa
territorial sea tripoint
in the distance at left
which is roughly the same 8 miles you mention farther
down the gulf

as this zoomable also suggests
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=39.45&TextLongitude=-98.907&TextAltitude=0&TextSelectedEntity=39070&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=elat&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on

i believe both of these tripoints however may still be
only hypothetical equidistance types
since i am not aware of any agreements that pin them
down

but perhaps the tries for them can now be advanced or
improved

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