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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Washington, D.C. 20520
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February 10, 1981
Mr Westin
Mr. J. A. Fortescue
First Secretary
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Dear Mr. Fortescue:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the study on the Egypt/Sudan boundary that you so kindly obtained for this Office. It is an excellent his- torical precis of a rather anomalous geographic circum- stance--the sort of situation geographers love and states- men hate.
Regarding geographic anomalies, I thought that I would bring to your attention a letter recently sent from the Peoples Republic of China Cartographic Publishing House to the National Geographic Society of the United States. The letter responded to the Society's queries regarding placename verification preparatory to the production of a new map on China. What is interesting in the Chinese response is their suggestion that the boundary that encircles Hong Kong should be corrected (note enclosure).
The suggestion is most unusual insofar as this Office has had no notice that the Hong Kong-China boundary, as it appeared in our study of April 5, 1962 (enclosed) has under- gone any revision. Understandably, the National Geographic Society is in a quandary as to how to depict the boundary on their maps. We have suggested that for the time being no change be made from previous depictions.
If we are in error in doing so, I would appreciate some verification of this new change so that our boundary records may be brought up to date.
As the material provided this office by the National Geographic Society must be considered proprietary information, I would appreciate it if the subject could be handled in a confidential manner.
Yours yery truly,
JMillard Burr
Special Assistant
Office of the Geographer
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