Subject: bicdrw bicdtz birwtz & we are out of bees or are we<br/>
Date: Oct 07, 2006 @ 18:31<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1337192136">if you are reading this<br/>
you probably already realize it is the umpteenth in an<br/>
ongoing & more or less alphabetical series <br/>
comprising the boundarypoint borderbase tour of the<br/>
tricountry points of the world<br/>
which began as soon as we realized we could try them<br/>
all in virtual reality for the first time <br/>
with the new google earth wonder toy<br/>
<br/>
but late arrivals can join & catch the entire<br/>
preliminary tour in one swell foop at<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://nicolette.dk/borderbase/google/Border%20tripoints.kmz">http://nicolette.dk/borderbase/google/Border%20tripoints.kmz</a><br/>
where they will find the original pushpin placemarks<br/>
referred to & pictured in the attachments to this<br/>
message & the others<br/>
<br/>
for anyone not already familiar with the common 6<br/>
letter bp tripoint names<br/>
it can be a fun challenge to puzzle them out<br/>
since they have been created by arranging in<br/>
alphabetical order the standard universal 2 letter<br/>
code names of the 3 countries that constitute any<br/>
given tripoint<br/>
<br/>
in the case of the first of the above titled tripoints<br/>
<br/>
namely bicdrw<br/>
even if you didnt know our grand alphabetical tour<br/>
would be reaching burundi in english or bi in code<br/>
today<br/>
you might have recognized or guessed this bi element<br/>
or maybe you would first have spotted the cd as in<br/>
congo democratic & or the rw as in rwanda that follow<br/>
& combine with it<br/>
<br/>
but no matter <br/>
for once you have recognized or correctly guessed any<br/>
of the 3 component digraphs<br/>
the rest of the tripoint name is much easier to figure<br/>
out <br/>
if not already obvious<br/>
when you consult your mental map or peek at a real one<br/>
if necessary<br/>
<br/>
& a complete list of the standard 2 letter codes can<br/>
be found here<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2</a><br/>
in case you need it too<br/>
which however i also doubt you will<br/>
<br/>
but in any case the search for the bicdrw tripoint<br/>
itself leads to the confluence of the luhwa river with<br/>
the rusizi as detailed here<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19282">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19282</a><br/>
& because the thalweg junction is given as the correct<br/>
location by the best available authorities & is<br/>
evidently discernible on the satpic too<br/>
i have attached a tripoint stretching diagram based<br/>
upon this position<br/>
<br/>
this  <br/>
like all the other tripoint stretching diagrams<br/>
attached to this series of messages <br/>
uses a white line with little red squares at its ends<br/>
to suggest pulling the erroneous yellow google earth<br/>
border depictions & triply erroneous trijunction point<br/>
over to the presumably correct or more nearly correct<br/>
location<br/>
<br/>
& as for the bicdtz tripoint<br/>
it is known to lie on the parallel of the mouth of<br/>
ndyakalika ravine<br/>
which is said to debouch into lake tanganyika in slat<br/>
4d27m<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19284">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19284</a><br/>
<br/>
but since this ravine cant be found anywhere by its<br/>
name<br/>
the likeliest ravine mouth was found at google earth <br/>
in slat 4d26m56s as it happens<br/>
& <br/>
it is this exact parallel of latitude<br/>
at the measured midpoint of the lake upon it<br/>
that was selected for the best guessed tripoint<br/>
stretching diagram in the second attachment<br/>
<br/>
& <br/>
turning finally to the birwtz tripoint<br/>
at the thalweg junction of the mwibu river with the<br/>
kagera<br/>
i think the borderbase pushpin has already nailed it<br/>
as well as can be<br/>
<br/>
so there would be no point in trying to add another<br/>
tripoint stretching diagram to an already overstuffed<br/>
message<br/>
<br/>
nevertheless<br/>
it is opportune to append the following checklist <br/>
of all tripoints not previously counted of countries<br/>
having english names beginning with the letter b<br/>
to the list of the 40 tripoints previously counted in<br/>
message 19935 of countries having english names<br/>
beginning with the letter a<br/>
<br/>
bangladesh 1<br/>
belarus 5<br/>
belgium 3<br/>
belize 1<br/>
benin 3<br/>
bhutan 2<br/>
bolivia 3<br/>
bosnia 3 but yikes i just realized we forgot the new<br/>
bamers tripoint<br/>
botswana 4<br/>
brazil 5<br/>
bulgaria 4<br/>
burkina faso 4<br/>
burundi 3<br/>
which thus produces a total of 41 bees <br/>
on top of the earlier 40 ays or ehs<br/>
or however you spell the plural of the first letter of<br/>
the alphabet<br/>
<br/>
so as soon as i run back to bosnia to pick up the new<br/>
bamers tripoint<br/>
if you dont mind waiting a bit longer for cambodia &<br/>
the rest of the long awaited cees to begin<br/>
we will have completed 81 or nearly half the world<br/>
class <br/>
<br/>
<br/>
yikes<br/>
<br/>
lucky i double checked tho<br/>
<br/>
& please stand by while i back up again<br/>
<br/>
this is not part of the original itinerary<br/>
 <br/>
<br/>
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