apologies if this needed a secret decoder ring
smiley
but happily most of you are already quite at home with my sydlexia & other foibles
in any case
it is just another east west mixup
haha
& the correction is inserted in the appropriate place in the text below
also
in case you are looking for the tripoint stretcher attachment again
it is archived at the bottom here
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.discuss.boundary-point/9449
&
in case you are looking for the little red square at the end of the long white leash again
it is hiding in the glaciated area
but will eventually jump out at you
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> the provisional cnpk terminus & conventionally
> depicted cninpk position
> which is favored by pakistan
> is shown here as a tricolor trijunction at karakoram
> pass
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/china_indiaw_border_88.jpg
> but as you probably know or can gather from the map
> the entire triarea is in multiple dispute
>
> & the de facto position
> which is favored by india
> appears to be at or near indira col or indirakoli pass
> about 100 km wnw of karakoram pass
> where saltoro ridge meets karakoram ridge east of
> siachen glacier
oops
make that
east of where it says siachen glacier
but actually west of siachen glacier
& east of the baltoro glacier shown & named on the subsequent map
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/kashmir_disputed_2002.jpg
> http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/may/26siac.htm
>
> both karakoram pass & indira col are named & shown in
> detail here
> albeit strangely unassociated with any borders
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/india/ni-43-04.jpg
>
> look for karakoram pass at center far right & indira
> col at upper leftish
>
> but since the google earth border overlays & jespers
> pushpin already have the provisional conventional &
> rather unreal position covered at karakoram pass
> my attached best guessed tripoint stretching diagram
> has tried instead for the actually effective de facto
> position at indira col