An American Oddity

  • Dates
    2025 - 2025
  • Author
  • Topics Landscape, Nature & Environment, Travel
  • Location Point Roberts, United States

A walk along an imaginary line, the 49th parallel, that divides a secluded town from the mainland it is part of.

These photographs were taken in Point Roberts, a pene-exclave located in the southern part of Canada's Tsawwassen Peninsula. With this area falling south of the 49th parallel–an imaginary east-west line that also serves as the dividing line for the Canada-US border–it is oddly part of Washington State. While walking along the divide, I couldn't help but think of how some boundaries such as this one are merely lines drawn on a map..

© Phoenix Kanada - What Awaits Around the Bend?
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What Awaits Around the Bend?

© Phoenix Kanada - Blocked Access Point
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Blocked Access Point

© Phoenix Kanada - Or Another Opening?
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Or Another Opening?

© Phoenix Kanada - Benchmark #1: Granite Obelisk
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Benchmark #1: Granite Obelisk

© Phoenix Kanada - Another Opening
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Another Opening

© Phoenix Kanada - Down the Dividing Line
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Down the Dividing Line

© Phoenix Kanada - Untitled (Sea Through the Trees)
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Untitled (Sea Through the Trees)

© Phoenix Kanada - A Small Warning
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A Small Warning

© Phoenix Kanada - Natural Defense
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Natural Defense

An American Oddity by Phoenix Kanada

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