of course china leads the world by far in world class
tripoints with 16
& even after afcnpk afcntj btcnine & btcninw
which were already visited on this tour in english
alphabetical order
there still remain
cninnpe cninnpw cninpk cnkgkz cnkzru cnkgtj cnkpru
cnlamm cnlavn cnmnrue & cnmnruw
following cninmm that is
where we are now dillydallying
for cninmm is among the most difficult of all
& we have slowed down here for good reason
to begin with
its position is in dispute between china & india
so at least 2 positions may be considered
even tho the position claimed by india is the de facto
position
as it is the terminal point of the so called line of
actual control aka loc
aka the mcmahon line more or less
all of which thus makes cninmm quite similar to
btcnine
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.discuss.boundary-point/9292
& the chinese position for cninmm could be ignored
& moreover is ignored
by most available maps
at least here in the west
but there is this old soviet map
http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Centr._Asia/Topo%20maps_500k/G-47-A.jpg
which like its btcnine counterpart indicates at least
someones idea of the chinese position
& there may exist other ideas of it too
still
even without getting into the nitty gritty of the
dispute
there is also the following tidbit from
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS042.pdf
The Sino - Burmese treaties did not resolve the
problem of the Sino - Indian - Burmese
tripoint. Chinese claims to most of the Northeast
Frontier Agency of India would place the
tripoint much further south than the point claimed by
India. The Treaty (1960) is vague,
defining the boundary only as "passing through Gamlang
La to the western extremity of the
Burmese Indian boundary." There are strong hints,
however, that the Protocol carries the
Diphu La as the tripoint. This pass has been mentioned
many times as a point on the
McMahon Line as well as being on the Burmese - Indian
border. Hence, according to this
reasoning, the pass would be the Sino - Indian -
Burmese tripoint. However, modern maps
locate the Diphu La south of the Di Chhu - La Te
watershed, i.e., the McMahon Line
according to Indian claims. The problem appears to
stem from inaccurate plotting of the
Diphu Pass on earlier maps; it is quite impossible for
the pass to be situated where it is
shown and to be on the watershed. Since the United
States has accepted the validity of
the McMahon Line, in principle if not in detail, the
Diphu Pass should not be identified as
the tripoint.
so this appears to explain why the watershed north of
the diphu pass appears as the tripoint on most western
maps
for example encarta here when fully zoomed in if you
will
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=28.208445768554185&TextLongitude=97.34878706772675&TextAltitude=10&TextSelectedEntity=8091938&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=hkakabo+razi&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on&ResultsListbox=28.6666078899616%3B97.516495912483%3B7%3B8091938%3BGyigang%2C+Tibet%2C+China%3BLarge%3BComprehensive
for the topography however
the best available map is still this old soviet one
http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Centr._Asia/Topo%20maps_500k/H-47-V.jpg
where you can at least visualize the indian version of
the tripoint
just above the bottom margin in roughly e97d20m &
n28d10m
on the depicted burmese border at the height of land
between the passes with labeled elevations of 4358 &
4680
& with benefit of all these data & the google earth
contour features too
it is now possible to offer the attached tripoint
stretching diagram
of the most fastidious available as well as actually
de facto cninmm
at the presumptive ridge trijunction & watershed
trijunction point
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