Subject: Re: gbfrnl, evhritsi, cafr, etc<br/>
Date: Dec 08, 2001 @ 06:24<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1625756916">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Grant Hutchison wrote:<br/>
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&gt; The reason for this odd course isn&#39;t obvious in EarthA, but becomes <br/>
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&gt; clear if you look at a map of Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, like the <br/>
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&gt; one at http://www.netherlandsantilles.com/maps/stmarteen_map.jpg<br/>
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&gt; the western end of the dry boundary turns SW and crosses a SW-facing  <br/>
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&gt; coast, propelling the equidistance line in that direction.<br/>
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&gt; I find it incredibly difficult to find good maps of St. <br/>
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&gt; Maarten/Martin. But the maps that I do find, sometimes have the <br/>
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&gt; boundary turning point like on the map that you posted, but sometimes <br/>
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&gt; they don&#39;t. An example of the latter is http://www.caribbean-on-<br/>
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&gt; line.com/sm/smmap.shtml . I really don&#39;t know what is the truth here.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>perhaps to explain all of the difficulty in this entire discussion i believe i was told by the locals many years ago & have since seen it confirmed in maybe gideon &or on the web that the frnl boundary is actually quite defective both in demarcation & description & that there may only exist there that single huge monument they have near the main road crossing which we have seen a few times already but i will try to flash again anyway since it is also a heavy in the discussion of the worlds largest boundary monument<br/>
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in fact it is as if it were a monument to no monuments & no boundary at all</div>