Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] My visit to Campione d'Italia
Date: Jul 31, 2006 @ 02:56
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...>)
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From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] My visit to Campione d'Italia
> 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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