proruption evidently refers to the entire salient area rather than just the narrow neck or waist where it breaks out of the larger mass
also your hancock maryland neck tho certainly the narrowest such tristate neck is actually a bit wider than the half mile neck of northeasternmost vermont which separates new hampshire from quebec & isnt even shown by aaa tho you can dial it up on topozone & also see it in bus&ss p63
& the most extreme states per hour strip is apparently either
ri ct ma nh vt ny for backroaders
or else
ct ny nj pa de md for autobahners
on either of which sequences i would think one could average at least 3 states per hour for 2 straight hours in a fast car with a radar detector & good luck during the wee hours of a quiet morning
m
also re vanishingly small necks consider the former glacial neck of alaska in tarr inlet on the upper panhandle which has melted all the way back into canadian territory so that the alaska mainland is now broken into 2 separate parts by the sea
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., jamatotest <jamato@b...> wrote:
> It's not on the national level, but one can travel through three U.S. states
> (PA, MD, WV) in about 4 (yes, four) minutes, with no tripoint involved.
> The spot in question is near Hancock, MD, where Interstate highways 68 and
> 70 meet. US Highway 522 runs the width of this 2-mile wide MD 'proruption'
> (I must admit, I had never heard that word before today).
>
> Also, if one were to continue on US 522 from Hancock, heading south through
> West Virginia, you would cross into Virginia within a half-hour, making it
> possible to travel through 4 US states in about 35 minutes, with no
> multipoints involved.
>
> I believe there is another location where one can travel through 4 US states
> in under an hour - FL-AL-MS-LA, heading west on Interstate Highway 10...
>
> Jon
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@y...>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:19 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: cnkpru aka NKRuZh & nl
>
>
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., orc@o... wrote:
> > (...) salients like this may also be called proruptions (...)
> >
> > Really? The Netherlands has a proruption like this. It is called
> > South Limburg. It is always nice to show foreign visitors (especially
> > from big countries like the US) that you can visit three different
> > countries in, say, fifteen minutes (without coming even near a
> > tripoint, that is). The journey by car from boundary marker 122 on
> > the benl border to boundary marker 311 on the denl border lasts that
> > long (this is from Maaseik (B), via Roosteren and Susteren (NL) to
> > Isenbruch (D)).
> >
> > Peter S.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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