Subject: Re: Really Abitrary Points
Date: Jun 21, 2001 @ 20:32
Author: bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
Prev    Post in Topic    Next [All Posts]
Prev    Post in Time    Next


Watersheds hav also interested me, especially watershed tri-points.
These would be the points where a drop of rain would be split into
three droplets destined for different rivers. I seriously doubt that
there are any watershed quad-points.

BJB

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Harry ten Veen" <h.ten.veen@t...> wrote:
> I have some "meridian" links in my favorites collection.
>
> Maybe an idea for someone to make an website with all these kind of
links
> ???
>
>
> The French meridean:
> http://www.apgi.net/andouque/nouveaut.htm
>
> The Utrecht meridean:
> http://www.sonnenborgh.nl/
>
> Greenwich:
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/peter-m/meridian/peter-mer.html
>
> Fiji at 180 degr.:
> http://www.millenniumfiji.com/180.html
>
> Interesting, aren't they?
>
>
>
> There should be many more sites to be found, for example on the
equator,
> polar circle etc.
> I always wonder if anywhere the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of
Capricorn
> are marked???
>
> Another frontier, not being a real border, [but anything is alowed
in this
> group I learned] is the
> continental division (waterscheiding it is called in my Dutch
atlas).
> I remember that on the way to Austria we saw at one of the German
Autobahnen
> a big sign
> "Europaïsche Wasserscheide". Which might be considered a
> sort-of-border-marker....
> The GCEBE will cross the division also ......
>
>
> What personally intrigues me also is the centre, the highest point
etc.
> For the Netherlands, you might check my humble website:
> http://leden.tref.nl/~veenhh/borderland.htm
>
> gl
> Harry ten Veen