Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Historic geographic anomalies<br/>
Date: Jan 01, 2001 @ 01:28<br/>
Author: Arif Samad (Arif Samad &lt;fHoiberg@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1551736340">Guys,<br/>
     I am sorry I haven&#39;t been able to put the Berlin<br/>
exclaves online.  We are having the New Year&#39;s party,<br/>
and I am afraid I will end up losing or some kids are<br/>
gonna swallow all my research.  I will put it online<br/>
soon, thanks to Catudal.  By the way, Ramadan ended,<br/>
so you will see my messages increase.<br/>
     Mats, I made a mistake when I wrote exclaves. <br/>
There is only one exclave in Belgium.  I meant to<br/>
write exclave but accidentally pluralized it.  It is<br/>
possible that the road on the left hand side of the<br/>
exclave seen is sovereign territory of Ireland.  This<br/>
would explain the narrow bridge of Irish land that<br/>
shows up on current maps.  I have better paper maps of<br/>
almost all the exclaves that you put online, so I can<br/>
send them to you if you give me your snail-mail<br/>
address.<br/>
     Mike, many of the original states were supposed<br/>
to go from the Atlantic to Pacific.  Massachusetts<br/>
actually had another exclave that stretched to<br/>
Pacific.  The most interesting Atlantic-Pacific<br/>
stretching was South Carolina (I think, I need to find<br/>
the atlas; it could be Georgia), which was supposed to<br/>
stretch to Pacific in a narrow lane, but the<br/>
definition of the lane was mistaken, thus there was<br/>
technically no such lane.  I am not sure, but the fact<br/>
that there was no lane may have been discovered after<br/>
they gave up the lane.  Thus there could have been a<br/>
ghost ghost exclave.   <br/>
     David, Porkkala was a soviet (I think the land<br/>
was leased) base in Finland.  It is like Guantanamo or<br/>
the Cypriot bases or the treaty ports in China.  Even<br/>
Panama Canal Zone was similar.<br/>
     Jesper, you have no idea the can of worms Panama<br/>
Canal Zone is.  It will be one of my geographical<br/>
oddities later, but let me mention it now anyway. <br/>
Colon was an exclave of Panama.  The road from Panama<br/>
to Colon was Panamanian to use, but did not belong to<br/>
them.  However, that&#39;s not all.  There was a coastal<br/>
fragment of PCZ in Panama City.  There was also an<br/>
exclave of PCZ in Colon itself.  Both Colon and the<br/>
exclave within Colon had coast, but the maritime<br/>
borders surrounded them, thus making them exclaves. <br/>
Whew!  Talking about Walvis Bay, you know about the<br/>
twelve tiny coastal islands of Namibia which were<br/>
South African, right?<br/>
                                    Arif<br/>
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