other reports reaffirm nyungwe forest is right
being at the head of the rukarara branch of a
tributary of the kagera
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=ZX524067R&news_headline=nile_explorers_arrive_home_
http://news.africast.com/africastv/article.php?newsID=58311
oops again
also clarifying is
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/N/NI/NILE.htm
3 scroll clicks down
under sources of nile
so the earlier report erred in placing the source only
66 miles from lake victoria but was right about
nyungwe
the headstream can even be followed from there on the
encarta map
so it isnt such a mystery after all
any rwtzug details are still elusive tho
--- aletheia kallos <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
> hot news of completion of corrected sawanabori of
> the
> nile
> http://www.itn.co.uk/news/index_2068754.html
> presumably including a careful rwtzug visit
> but with a puzzle or 2
>
> for the nyungwe forest that is named by the reporter
> as the source point isnt really 66 river miles above
> lake victoria as claimed
> but actually hundreds of air miles beyond that
>
> oops
>
> i do tend to trust everything else about the report
> tho
> based on this earlier notice of the expedition
> http://www.ascendthenile.co.uk/expedition.html
> in which the stated intention of ascending the
> kagera
> is what alerted me to the fact that this truth head
> party would necessarily visit rwtzug
>
> aka the rwanda tanzania uganda tripoint
>
> which is known to be at the thalweg junction of the
> kakitumba with the kagera
> per brownlie
>
>
>
> this map suggests that the writer simply confused
> the
> nyungwe forest
> which is outlined in grayish green at dead center in
> southwest rwanda
> with another famous rwandan national park named
> akagera
> which is also shown in green outline
> but in the necessarily correct location in
> northeastern rwanda
>
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=mont+luhonge&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on
>
> & the true nile source location 66 river miles from
> lake victoria must be in the northernmost reaches of
> that correct green outline
> as you can see if you will pan east once
>
>
> except
> there is one more puzzle
> for the kagera is known to continue falling from
> many
> miles farther south than 66 river miles above
> victoria
> http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/K/Kagera.asp
>
> another oops perhaps
> but i will reserve judgment on that one
> for it could simply be a misprint for 166 or 266 or
> something
> placing the true source point that much farther
> south
>
>
> of course i will be looking out now for the early
> rushes from the expedition
> not only for further clarification & more details of
> their truly monumental discovery of the corrected
> sawanabori point
> but perhaps even more expectantly for any first word
> or image of our virgin rwtzug tripoint
> at the most significant confluence & moment of truth
> en route to their river source target
>
>
>
>
>
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