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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 2:12
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Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Egypt Sudan
Quadpoint - water changing boundaries?
The "X" formed where the administrative boundary between
northern
Sudan and southern Egypt crosses the de-facto boundary forms a
quad point.
Further west from this point, the border crosses lake Nasser -
and the
border is undefined, but takes a dip northward into Egypt proper.
It's a weird place.
Lake Nasser (I think it was Nasser that it
crossed - I don't have a
map in front of me), if I recall correctly, was
formed by a dam - and
it's odd that maps show this little "dip" of the
border into Egypt at
the lakeshores, as though the border changed from the
straight line
that was there when the water showed up. Maybe it was
"moved"
northward by the Sudanese when the lake grew close enough to Sudan
so
they could dip into it without causing too much of a rucuss. It
is
marked on some maps with a dotted line across the water,
indicating
"in dispute" like the eastern end is.
Len
Nadybal
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