A decent map can be found at
http://www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/cahiers/PTP/27181.PDF
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen"
<jesniel@i...> wrote:
> Brownlie intepreted bt m donner:
>
>
http://home.worldonline.dk/~jesniel/border/african_tripoints.htm#gncil
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>
> Jesper
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Grant Hutchison
> To: Boundary Point
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 6:21 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: gvivli
>
>
> > Guinea/Ivory Coast/Liberia tripoint:
> Unfortunately, the tripoint isn't on Mont Nimba, as the attached
Global
> Explorer map shows. The 5748ft summit on the Guinea/Cote d'Ivoire
border is
> Nimba, which is the highest peak in both those countries. The
ridge of Nimba
> mountains then runs SW to the 4544ft summit, Gbaam, which is the
highest
> point in Liberia. Somewhere in between, at a point Biger calls
Mount Neun,
> is the tripoint. I've never been able to track down a position
for this
> mountain, but it's at the headwaters of what Biger calls the Neun
River,
> which appears as the Nuon on this map.
> Biger's description of the river courses are inconsistent with
this map,
> which is frustrating - he implies that the source of the Cavally
River is
> also near the tripoint. When I had Brownlee's book out on loan I
did check
> to make sure that Nimba was not the tripoint (it wasn't) but
unfortunately I
> didn't keep a record of the exact location of the tripoint - at
that time I
> was more interested in whether Nimba was the highest summit in
two or three
> countries.
>
> Grant
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