Island Vulnerability Tripoints
https://www.islandvulnerability.org/tripoints.html
See also Borders.
Island Vulnerability explores the challenges which isolated geographies face when dealing with risk and disasters by examining the processes which create, maintain, and could be used to reduce their vulnerability. Border regions can demonstrate many risk, disaster, development, and vulnerability challenges which are similar to islands, although some capital cities are border settlements such as Asunción, Lomé, Kinshasa, and Brazzaville. Comparisons and contrasts between islands (of different types) and borders (of different types, including tripoints) require more work.
This Island Vulnerability Tripoints page provides examples of tripoints, illustrating that, at times, an artificial line is drawn, irrespective of hazards, vulnerabilities, risks, disasters, and resiliences, potentially influencing them all through arbitrary changes in management approaches. In cases where the border conforms to a physical feature--for example, delineated by a river or mountain range--issues of transboundary hazard, vulnerability, risk, and disaster still emerge. A river might flood both banks of a river with a similar hazard, but a disaster might occur on one bank but not the other indicating different vulnerabilities and different resilience needs.
Tripoints:
- Austria - Liechtenstein - Switzerland
- Belgium - France - Luxembourg
- Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg
- Belgium - Germany - Netherlands
- France - Germany - Luxembourg
- France - Germany - Switzerland
See also Borders.
The illustration of a border here does not imply any comment on, support for, or refutation of any disputes.
Austria - Liechtenstein - Switzerland
Austria - Liechtenstein - Switzerland Northern Tripoint looking along the Austrian-Liechtenstein border to Switzerland.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2003)
Belgium - France - Luxembourg
Belgium - France - Luxembourg Tripoint viewed from Belgium with a France-Belgium border marker at the left.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
Belgium - France - Luxembourg Tripoint viewed from France with a France-Belgium border marker at the left.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
Belgium - France - Luxembourg Tripoint viewed from Luxembourg.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg
Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg Tripoint looking from Germany with border markers on each side of the river.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg Tripoint looking from Belgium with two border markers visible.
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Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg Tripoint looking towards Germany along the Belgium-Luxembourg border.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg Tripoint looking along the border with Germany.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
Belgium - Germany - Netherlands
(Drielandenpunt. Neutral Moresnet also used to meet here.)
Belgium - Germany - Netherlands (Drielandenpunt.)
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
Belgium - Germany - Netherlands (Drielandenpunt.)
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
Belgium - Germany - Netherlands (Drielandenpunt.)
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
In three countries simultaneously: Belgium - Germany - Netherlands (Drielandenpunt.)
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
France - Germany - Luxembourg
France - Germany - Luxembourg Tripoint looking from Luxembourg.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
France - Germany - Luxembourg Tripoint with the pole marking Germany on the left and Luxembourg on the right.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
France - Germany - Luxembourg Tripoint looking from Luxembourg.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2023)
France - Germany - Switzerland
France - Germany - Switzerland Tripoint looking from France towards the German-Swiss border.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2002)
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