thanx again doug
these pages work well on a good mac on cable
tho i couldnt get the pix to enlarge
both bzgt markers are surely among the funkiest ever reported
so extra kudos for bringing them back to us alive
the big one can be recognized as the 2nd of the 3 primary bzgt
monuments
marking the only turnpoint along the entire bzgt geodetic sector
between gracias a dios aka modesto mendez in the south
& aguas turbias aka bzgtmx in the north
& since the cairns are at regular 2km intervals
they cant be the same as the 32 secondary markers mentioned
in message 9828
which fill in the 165km of the southerly segment only
thus necessarily at much greater intervals
if they are at regular intervals at all
so you must have discovered something previously unreported &
entirely unheard of there
perhaps even an informal makeshift invention necessitated by
local circumstances
since these cairns arent mentioned in any known agreements or
reports
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray
<doug@d...> wrote:
> As promised, I have posted some more pictures of BZGT. I've
uploaded a
> series of images from Aranal, a town that has the border
slicing
> through it. There are plenty of shots of the infamous football
field.
> Please advise if the images are too slow to load. I am
experimenting
> with my Mac, and may not be reducing the file sizes enough. If
anyone
> knows a better way to do this, let me know!
>
> Some notes:
>
> The fine folks from the Belize Defense Force showed me their
topo map
> and allowed me to take a picture of the GPS reading. This was
done
> standing on the border.
>
> There are stone cairns that have been placed every 2km along
much of
> the border. However, locals have been taking the rocks, and
the cairns
> slowly disappear. I found the remnants of one of these cairns.
>
> The border is pretty much invisible here, but it does run
through the
> football field at an angle, almost corner to corner. One goal in
each
> country.
>
> The Aranal pictures:
> http://homepage.mac.com/dougmurray/PhotoAlbum21.html
> The Melchor (GT)/Benque Viejo (BZ) bordermarker:
> http://homepage.mac.com/dougmurray/PhotoAlbum18.html
>
> And there are plenty more non-border pictures too. And more
to come!
>
> Doug