After a research trip to an oil field in east Iraq, Ruba Husari, a British citizen of Palestinian descent, took a detour to visit a site she had wanted to see for some time.
When she arrived it was barren, but the spot marked the exact geographic intersection of a latitude and longitude point — 33 degrees north and 46 degrees east — one of 40 confluence points in Iraq that adventurous travellers are looking to document as part of an Internet-based project:
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http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2012/12/08/video-looking-for-nothing-in-iraqs-desert/