BoundaryPoint was an online group for discussions of international and internal political boundaries worldwide. The site contained thousands of files featuring photos and other data of interest to "boundary freaks". Founded by yours truly in 2000, the site was active until 2007.
BoundaryPoint was originally hosted on Yahoo Groups, and its valuable online archives were in danger of loss when Yahoo decided to delete uploaded content in 2019.
I'm grateful to the following for BP's preservation:
Clint Kaul used his outstanding computer expertise to download the group's archives (over 20,200 messages plus files and photos) before Yahoo's data deletion and organized the files for presentation.
Long time BoundaryPoint stalwart Lowell McManus (who ran the group's successor site, BorderPoint for many years) was instrumental in publishing the collected data for presentation.
To access the archives, click the links below. The four lists serve as tables of contents with links to the materials. The Messages List (6,308 KB) shows individual messages chronologically, and the Topics List (6,326 KB) groups messages into their threads. The contents of the Files and Photos Sections are found in the Files List (15 KB) and the Photos List (44 KB). Each of the four lists is searchable using your browser's "Find" function.
A link to these Archives has also been added to the “Links” section on the right.
Finding these archives brought back some great memories, like the time another BP member, Mike Donner, and I took a very small motorboat out to the middle of Florida's 730 square mile Lake Okeechobee to find the quintipoint, a place where five county boundaries met. Especially interesting to boundary freaks, is the fact that there is no other spot in the United States where this occurs.
In that particular case I used an early model Garmin GPS to mark the spot with a buoy. A number of months later, I took my flying club's old Cessna in an attempt to spot the damn buoy, but failed to find it because of all the whitecaps on the lake surface. It was a fun adventure but it cost me a small fortune in avgas. Would I do it again? Of course!
