a recent & best available nutshell simplification is
in paragraph 2 here
http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/news/boundary_news/?itemno=4652&rehref=%2Fibru%2F&resubj=Boundary+news%20Headlines
but for the quadripoint to exist
the median line or medium filum of the lower zambezi
must also coincide with the mentioned thalweg meeting
point
& both rivers do fluctuate wildly
as presumably do the relevant thalwegs & median line
& moreover
there also remains a question not addressed by
professor brownlie or his successors sfaik as to
whether the thalweg meeting point of reference is the
current & variable one or a historic 1931 position
legally frozen in 1933
per ibs 123 pdf pp 5f here
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS123.pdf
& docs 7 & 8 in appendix
which might open up a whole new or rather forgotten
can of worms
but still wasnt it fascinating to learn in the website
linked to the original question below that someone has
taken the enormous trouble of installing a large brown
& white pole marker somewhere in the confluence
so there might well be a locally accepted de facto or
virtual or practical or notional quadripoint
for who knows what to call such a thing
even if there is no legal quadripoint based on
existing agreements
as it appears there is not a chance of being
There is a very thorough case on the complex issue a
page 1098 in African
Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia by Ian
Brownlie .
Jesper
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Johan Henrik Schimanski
Sendt: 30. november 2006 23:06
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Emne: Re: [INT-BOUNDARIES] Non-National Territory held
in Common Trust
Hi,
they don't quite meet, at least, they didn't when I
was there in around 1970
as a young person. The car ferry across the Zambesi
from Zambia lands in
Botswana. To the left today is Zimbabwe and to the
right is Namibia. Does
anybody know how far apart they are?
No wonder I spend time thinking on borders
today.
regards
Johan Schimanski
Den 30. nov. 2006 kl. 22.37 skrev Ilan Kelman:
> 3. To supplement the boundary crosses, I had
understood that four
> countries meet in southern Africa? See
>
http://www.lowdown.co.zm/2003/2003-12/wherefourcountriesmeet.htm
and
> http://www.safarinow.com/go/ChobeMarinaLodge
> Or have I been fooled by tourist literature?
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