Jan Lodder:
>> And, cross thread alert, it is close to the 'Ligne de Partage des
>> Eaux', which is also indicated by the side of the autoroute.
Peter Moylan:
> Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen such a sign. In this country,
> the only comparable sign is when you cross a local maximum and see a
> sign like "Great Dividing Range, xxx metres". And the xxx is never very
> large because of course the highway has been routed through a low pass.
Such signs are common on highways in North America that cross the
Great Divide, aka Continental Divide, which separates Pacific and
Atlantic/Arctic drainage. Try a Google Images search on "continental
divide sign" for many examples. At one of the passes in Colorado --
Independence Pass -- the elevation is over 12,000 feet (or for you,
it's almost 3,700 m).
In Canada, a considerable length of the Divide also forms the provincial
boundary between Alberta and BC.
Other pass summits are also sometimes marked with their elevation, but
usually without any indication of which watersheds they form a divide
between.
It is not so common for the boundary between Atlantic and Arctic Ocean
drainage to be marked, partly because it isn't so obvious where the
line should be drawn from. But if Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait are
counted as part of the Arctic Ocean, then the meeting point of the
drainage to the three oceans is marked by the *name* of Triple Divide
Peak in Montana. ObMap:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NorthAmerica-WaterDivides.png
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