Subject: Witness markers
Date: Mar 15, 2003 @ 06:01
Author: Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
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From: Iraq-Kuwait Border Demarcation Commission
 
http://www.meij.or.jp/text/border/Kuwait-Iraq/irqkwt9305.htm
 
"each location one witness mark on the Iraqi side and one witness mark on the Kuwaiti side are buried in the ground to facilitate repositioning of the pillar should it become necessary. Small pointer pillars on either side provide a direction towards the site of the next pillar."
 
We see the same marker system at former Soviet borders, too. 
 
Are the witness markers/country markers in the former Soviet also technically part of the survey, or are they just placed there with little considderation?
 
Jesper