& then
following my own advice & retracing the nile
headstream shown on encarta in the nyungwe forest back
down river toward lake victoria
i realized the expedition must have passed thru not
just rwtzug but soon afterwards birwtz as well
aka burundi rwanda tanzania
which brownlie says is at the thalweg junction of the
mwibu & kagera
& which can be seen if not quite so clearly on the
same map i used
so oops on me too
& all the more to get excited about in the eventual
expedition report
&
while celebrating recent great feats of geography
lets also hear it for the guy who just walked across
b o t h
the darien gap
a n d
the bering ice bridge
& thus from south america to asia in a single jaunt
tho his program is far greater than just that
for he appears to be headed for cnmnruw & or cnkzru
& beyond
just as soon as he gets out of jail
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1746910,00.html
http://goliath.mail2web.com/Route/
i am surprised he isnt heading for capetown tho
just to make it the longest possible walk in the world
but theres no accounting for taste
--- aletheia kallos <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
> 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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