Jesper,
As of the early 1990s, there were border markers on the original border between Hong Kong and China. This quote is taken from my book:
"On the eastern edge of the city of Shenzen, China, the large town at the Hong Kong-China border, lies the small community of Shatoujiao. In the village is a famous street named Sino-British Street, which is bisected by a row of boundary stones, on the sides of which are engraved the names of the two governments in power at the end of the last century. Prior to the re-unification of Hong Kong and China in 1997, this town had become a must for Chinese visitors to Shenzen because it was "perhaps the only place where one [could] literally straddle the border between Hong Kong and China" (Cao and Ge 1993: 9)."
Otherwise, most of the HK-China border is a small river/stream/canal. I believe I've posted pictures of it before.
There is an old National Geographic article (maybe from the 1980s or 70s) which shows pictures of these boundary stones mentioned in the quote above. Does anybody know which article I'm talking about? I think the article was about Hong Kong.
Dallen
-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen [mailto:jesniel@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:17 AM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] British boundary markers
I have a colleague that is going to cross the Spanish-Gibraltar border, and asked me if she should photograph some boundary markers.
I told her that finding boundary markers would be very unlikely as Spain is not happy about the border.
And then I came to think that as far as I know Britain has nowhere in the world markers at their border with:
Gibraltar
Cyprus
Ireland
And I assume there were none at the Hong Kong border too?
I am right, or can anybody prove me wrong!
Jesper
Gideon by the way claim border markers between Cyprus and the British bases, but I am not sure if he is right
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