Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] My visit to Campione d'Italia
Date: Jul 31, 2006 @ 00:49
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> in fact__________________________________________________
> & in all fairness to craig of mississauga
> & with extra honors to lowell of leesville too for
> not
> overplaying this point
> it was already clear from craigs report that he had
> indeed paid a call on this very arogno bissone
> campione or arbica trimunicipal point in the course
> of
> his hair raising ramble
> by simply visiting the southeast corner of campione
> along the way
> for he says
> > I continued along the road until it ended in a
> small
> park. From here
> > it was a very short walk to find the sign and
> boundary stone in
> > Campione d'Italia's southeast corner, and there
> was
> an "L" marked in
> > the top of the stone to indicate where the corner
> stood.
> so perhaps we can still look forward to his posting
> an
> updated photo of this corner marker rock number 14
> tho in fairness also to mats of lund
> it would be extremely hard to improve in any way on
> his earlier photo
> http://campione.enclaves.org/image/124-2463_img.jpg
> even tho a slight question remains about the exact
> arbica tripoint location within it
>
> for is the tripoint simply centered in the top
> center
> hole of the marker as i would guess
> or could it be at the outer bend of the ell shaped
> turnpoint diagram
> or midway between the outer & inner corners of this
> thick line
> or at the inner corner point of it
> or even somewhere else entirely among these perhaps
> as
> many of 4 different markers
> http://campione.enclaves.org/image/124-2462_img.jpg
> & thus not on this ell diagram nor even on this ell
> marker at all
>
> --- aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> > sharp shooting maestro
> > for thats the international quaternary tripoint of
> > chit2lmti3colg4arbica youve found there
> > thus obviating any need to find a more obscure
> > quintenary one within the campione city
> > administration
> >
> > --- "Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Mike D. wrote:
> > >
> > > > campione doesnt appear to have any major
> > tripoints
> > > > as it is situated entirely within the lugano
> > > district
> > > > of the ticino canton of switzerland
> > >
> > > It does have at least one minor tripoint,
> however.
> >
> > > On the page at
> > > http://campione.enclaves.org/ , please see the
> > left
> > > photo under "Marker
> > > 14," which is the southeast corner of Campione.
> > In
> > > addition to the CHIT
> > > monument at the base of the red signpost, there
> is
> > a
> > > smaller rock
> > > marking the bounds of the Swiss municipalities
> of
> > > Arogno and Bissone.
> > >
> > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
>
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