REMARKABLE BOUNDARIES

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7749, 15 July 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

REMARKABLE BOUNDARIES

The demarcation of the AlaskaCamuia boundary from the St. lillias range straight north along the 1 4 Irl meridian to the Arctic Ocean has been in progress since 1907, and is reported to have just been completed. This undertaking was notable for several reasons. No other modern boundary demarcation has extended into such high latitudes, and fow boundaries of equal length anywhere in the world are so straight. The line follows the meridian without tho slightest deviation, regardless of mountains, swamps and forests Wherever the 'boundary passes through timber and brush a 20ft. clearing has been made. Monument* have been set up along the entire line at points visible from each other,

generally at distances of three or four miles. At important points these monuments are sft. shafts o' 5 aluminium bronze, weighing 3001 b.. set in 20001 b. of concrete. The tv.-undary is Go>o miles long, and ip marked by about 200 monuments