Grant wrote:
> The obelisk is in the Tuvan capital Kyzyl, near
> the Yenisei River.
> (That neat location is pretty suspect, don't you
> think?)
But, actually, here is what may have happened.
In the year 1071 (give or take a few centuries), the
then-recently-formed Tuvanian government was pondering
long and hard as to what would be the best place to
establish a new city called Kyzyl, which was to become
the capital of Tuvan.
Just then, some very early (pre-Internet)
BoundaryPoint adherents happened to be passing through
Tuvan on a boundary/monument observation mission. They
lost no time pointing out to the Tuvanians that the
very center of Asia happened to fall within the
borders of Tuvan. Thus, it was unanimously agreed that
that would be the best place to found Kyzyl.
And so it came to pass. The original "Centre of Asia"
monument was erected soon thereafter in downtown
Kyzyl.
So, you see, there is nothing at all suspect here
(except, perhaps, the above apocryphal account).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Hutchison [mailto:granthutchison@...]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 6:20 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Centre of Asia marker
>
>
> Jesper:
> > Where is the marker (apart from at the center of
Asia of course :-
> ) )?
> I've sent this before but it hasn't appeared, though
subsequent
> messages have. No doubt both postings will now
appear simultaneously.
> The obelisk is in the Tuvan capital Kyzyl, near the
Yenisei River.
> (That neat location is pretty suspect, don't you
think?)
> Kyzyl is at 51 45 N 94 28 E.
>
> Grant
>
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