nice going jan
& this also goes a long way toward explaining how you & everyone else can
rightly place the center of europe in lithuania
while i am still laboring on it somewhere between minsk & pinsk
for example

but i think it is just the rodman rim story all over again
however on a much larger ball court
as one might expect in the case of a whole continent
& in this much more irregular & arbitrary situation

m

>From: "Jan Krogh" <jakro64@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: "BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups. com" <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] The Geographical Centre of Europe
>Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:16:55 +0100
>
>I have received a fact-sheet from The French National Geographical
>Institute
>on how they made the calculations of the centre of Europe. The copy was not
>able to scan, so I typewrote all the text and published it on
>http://www.litauen-nytt.org/prosjekter/geo_europe.htm (there might be
>misspellings!) Further I auto-translated it according to a tip from Harry
>on
>http://babelfish.altavista.com and got the result as enclosed.
>As I am not speaking French, maybe somebody of you can check the
>translation
>(it may include some funny parts). I have in mind, if I get permission from
>the IGN, to publish this English text on my GeoSite.
>
>According to the paper, the IGN recognises the Canary Is. as a part of
>Europe. (I would say they clearly are a part of Africa?!)
>They have also omitted Novaja Zemla of Russia and Malta, but included the
>Norwegian Svalbard Is.
>
>I also received an 11 page technical text (on paper) "Les centres de la
>France ... et d'ailleurs: aspects techniques et m�diatiques" (which is not
>translated). If somebody is interessted in a copy, please contact me!
>
>Jan
>Vilnius, Lithuania
>http://home.no.net/enklaver
><< geo_europe_eng.txt >>

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