Subject: Re: My visit to Campione d'Italia
Date: Aug 01, 2006 @ 14:32
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Schulz" <wertkauf@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> little offtopic, but does anyone of you knows something about the
> people, living in the houses close to Sassi del Cane: Mitra di
> S.Ambrogio and Rosa Fresca?
>
> Offtopic because of the non-direct-border-context, but interesting for
> me to know, if there are living "special" people (like the Barclay
> brothers living on this Island close to Sark, trying to build their own
> country).
>
> Regards, Chris
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ernst Stavro Blofeld" <blofeld_es@...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] My visit to Campione d'Italia
>
>
> > More fumblings in the dark:
> >
> > Look again at
> > http://www.globalgeografia.com/italia/img/campione_fig05a.jpg
> >
> > Doesn't it look like the international border between
> > #0 and #1 is indeed marked along the right bank of the
> > creek?
> >
> > And if the border between Castagnola and Arogno runs
> > in the middle of the creek (or along the thalweg),
> > which is not unlikely given the sketching on the map
> > mentioned above, this places the tripoint in the
> > water, roughly a meter or two south of #1.
> >
> > Then, if there is a marking on the south bank, this
> > should be aligned with the border from #1 to #2, to
> > aid in determining the tripoint.
> >
> > It looks like the border makes a turn exactly at #1,
> > but it is not entirely clear on Philips pictures that
> > this is evident on top of the marker.
> >
> > Are there other pictures from this area around that I
> > have missed? I'd appreciate very much if someone could
> > republish links, in that case (yes, I know, I should
> > use the search engine...).
> >
> > Didn't our danish friends make an expedition to these
> > parts not too long ago? Did that result in web
> > publishings?
> >
> > Yours,
> > M
> >
> > --- Ernst Stavro Blofeld <blofeld_es@...> wrote:
> >
> >> This is what the Elfter Anstand says about the
> >> northernmost part of the border:
> >
> >
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