Hi

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
<aletheiak@...> wrote:

>
> hi xavier
> disappearing islands are quite common

Well, obviously.
Some local people in that area - yet which area is the question -
made fun of it so I was interested in finding where it was.

> so even assuming this one is on defr & indeed even in
> the lauter
> exactly as you suppose
> still unless you can provide more info
> it remains anyones guess which vanishing island you
> may have in mind

Sure.

> the third photo from the bottom here
> http://boundaries.free.fr/
> shows the mouth of the lauter
> & therefore
> in its midst
> the major defr tripoint of the german states of baden
> wuerttemberg at right
> & rhineland palatinate at left
> with the french department of bas rhin in the
> foreground

Yes, that's right.
And even, it used to be, in the old days, the tripoint between the
Kingdom (later Republic, later Empire, later Republic again) of
France, the sovereign Grand-duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of
Bavaria.

> aka defr2brbwrp
>
> & coincidentally
> aka fre
> the easternmost point of france

btw it is only the easternmost point of continental France, as
Corsica is located quite more in the east.

> http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?

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