1. bede2linwrp & belu2lilulu etc.
    For people that know German, a nice site on some old inner-German boundaries and boundary stones is at:
    Apr 07, 2002 @ 20:48 - Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk <smaardijk@...>)
  2. Re: bede2linwrp & belu2lilulu etc.
    way to go peter for we are loving these fresh imported intersecondary points why because they are just as real & multisovereign as any multipoints yet somehow
    Apr 08, 2002 @ 02:25 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  3. Re: bede2linwrp & belu2lilulu etc.
    peter a very minor kibitz but i see the cia map of luxembourg at perry castaneda shows this tripoint in the diekirch district of luxembourg rather than the
    Apr 09, 2002 @ 16:34 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  4. Re: bede2linwrp & belu2lilulu etc.
    Yes, you re right. It s just that any subdivisions in Luxembourg between country and municipality don t mean a lot in that country. Apart from districts, they
    Apr 09, 2002 @ 16:51 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  5. Re: bede2linwrp & belu2lilulu etc.
    thanx peter glad to share in your hit & now to even beg for your pic at your easy convenience of course also had the great thrill of zeroing in on all of lu2
    Apr 10, 2002 @ 19:53 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  6. re places with few to zero tripoints
    correction & additions ... oops make that digrlu ... but feast your eyes on greenlands 3 divisions & lonely tripoint at
    Apr 10, 2002 @ 22:38 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  7. Re: [BoundaryPoint] re places with few to zero tripoints
    Hello Mike, ... NO official subdivisions at all? But surely, municipalities would count as official subdivisions, wouldn t they? The only place I could think
    Apr 11, 2002 @ 08:35 - Anton Florian Zeilinger ("Anton Florian Zeilinger" <anton_zeilinger@...>)
  8. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    acroorca2002 wrote: (...)feast your eyes on greenlands 3 divisions & lonely tripoint at http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/mgl.html (...) Strange, though, that
    Apr 11, 2002 @ 16:16 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  9. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    it is strange that the 2 versions dont agree & also that the cia seems to agree with both of us according to it greenlands lonely only major domestic tripoint
    Apr 11, 2002 @ 17:40 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  10. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    acroorca2002 wrote: (...)we are surprised & diverted practically everywhere if we expect subdivisional reality to conform to the simple hierarchy of our
    Apr 11, 2002 @ 17:47 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  11. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    greetings anton & glad to hear from the antons again generally as well you know for a while back there i was imagining we were all antons here even made the
    Apr 11, 2002 @ 16:41 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  12. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    acroorca2002 wrote: (...)today montserrat has a new map up on the net i cant find just now featuring no parishes but 3 new zones called dangerous & moderate &
    Apr 11, 2002 @ 18:16 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  13. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    there you have done it again for this is a far better map than the one i saw but couldnt recover & which also placed the tripoint in about the same position
    Apr 12, 2002 @ 03:15 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  14. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    ghaut must be from the language Hindi where it means a place next to a water body where people assemble to take bath or a place where washermen collectively
    Apr 12, 2002 @ 03:31 - amar6277@yahoo.com (<amar6277@...>)
  15. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    thanx amar that is an interesting historico etymological one how did hindu reach this west indian island early enough to have sprinkled its entire map with
    Apr 12, 2002 @ 18:47 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  16. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    new multipointing & etymological discoveries on montserrat & st kitts nevis detailed below with thanx again to this question ... subdivisions ... count as ...
    Apr 12, 2002 @ 22:41 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  17. cheap new quintipointing thrill with map & pix
    a map featuring yesterdays newfound nevis quintipoint http://www.tc.umn.edu/~terre011/nevparish.html on nevis peak so lets hear a warm bp welcome for
    Apr 13, 2002 @ 14:45 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  18. ghaut instincts
    it has been so beguiling to be presented with apparent evidence of hindi scribbled all over the map of a few select windward islands ghaut in montserrat ghut
    Apr 13, 2002 @ 16:00 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  19. Re: ghaut instincts
    From the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage by Richard Allsopp (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996): ghaut (ghut, gut) n (Montserrat, St. Kitts, Virgin
    Apr 13, 2002 @ 17:18 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  20. Re: ghaut instincts
    See also http://www.bartleby.com/61/13/G0111300.html So via Hindi from Sanskrit. Ghattah sounds a bit like gutter. And Ghaut sounds like the Dutch Goot
    Apr 13, 2002 @ 17:42 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  21. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    So, Bengali has the word Ghaut (actually, ghat in tha language) too. I remember the time when I went near a ghat on a small lake and saw the pelicans which I
    Apr 14, 2002 @ 01:15 - Arif Samad (Arif Samad <fHoiberg@...>)
  22. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    I don t propose this as any sort of definitive list, but here, for interest and discussion, are the countries and dependencies for which FIPS currently
    Apr 14, 2002 @ 16:57 - granthutchison ("granthutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  23. Re: [BoundaryPoint] re places with few to zero tripoints
    Greenland might even have a quadropoint: http://www.geodata-info.dk/greenland/images/gl1_2.gif Jesper ... From: acroorca2002 To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
    Feb 14, 2002 @ 20:00 - Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen ("Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
  24. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    That is the result of the extramunicipal National park belonging to two provinces , in my opinion. Peter S. ... point ... subdivisions ... tripoint ...
    Apr 14, 2002 @ 19:18 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  25. RE: [BoundaryPoint] re places with few to zero tripoints
    Greenland might even have a quadropoint: http://www.geodata-info.dk/greenland/images/gl1_2.gif Jesper If so, it would probably be impossible to mark because
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 01:54 - Jack Parsell ("Jack Parsell" <jparsell@...>)
  26. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    this fips list kept by the american state department appears to be in substantial but not complete agreement with the iso standard list maintained by the
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 03:28 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  27. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    ... cool in any case but not yet confirmed if we can believe the cia st kitts nevis divides itself into 14 primary subdivisions of which all 5 in nevis meet at
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 03:42 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  28. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    Subdivisions Bosnia and Herzegovina, see : http://www.vdiest.nl/boznia.htm Malta, see : http://www.vdiest.nl/malta.htm regards Franc ... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 03:48 - Franc Van Diest ("Franc Van Diest" <franc@...>)
  29. Re: ghaut instincts
    latin gutta meaning a drop of water gives english gutter so likely dutch goot too & these are evidently not related to ghat ghut ghaut ghattah meaning mountain
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 04:22 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  30. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    ... FIPS is pretty regularly updated, too. The Monaco communes, for instances, were officially deleted by the third FIPS update. But I agree we re not really
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 15:30 - granthutchison ("granthutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  31. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    ... Interestingly, despite mapping all those parishes, this website concludes that Malta has no primary administrative divisions. Are they purely religious?
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 15:33 - granthutchison ("granthutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  32. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    ... well.) Duh. They re council areas. Don t know where I got the idea they were parishes. G
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 15:58 - granthutchison ("granthutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  33. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    acroorca2002 wrote: (...)[Arif Samad]Doesn t Monaco have four divisions? Monaco, Monte- Carlo, La Condamine and Fontvieille or something. yes it did have 4
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 17:17 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  34. Re: re places with few to zero tripoints
    Peter S. wrote: (...)Monaco consists of only one municipality (or commune). Maybe this is a recent development, and the CIA and UN have acted accordingly.
    Apr 15, 2002 @ 17:26 - ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
  35. Re: ghaut instincts
    ... to ... well it turns out that a single individual sir wm stapleton d 1686 was simultaneously governor of montserrat st kitts nevis & the virgin islands or
    Apr 16, 2002 @ 16:01 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)