Here you can see a group of officials setting one up:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Teahouse/2286/history.htm (last
picture).
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@a...> wrote:
> 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@i...]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:17 AM
> To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> 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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