Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Territories and tripoints
Date: Jan 07, 2001 @ 23:33
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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See Catudal's various works on Berlin in the 1970s:
Exclave Problem of Western Europe
Steinstucken, a study in cold war politics
and several booklets and articles on Berlin, published separatley, or in
Cahiers de Geographie de Quebec (esp 1974)

Brendan

>From: Mats Hessman <Mats@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>To: "'BoundaryPoint@egroups.com'" <BoundaryPoint@egroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Territories and tripoints
>Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:35:02 +0100
>
>Arif wrote:
>
> > Non-sovereign foreign territories -
> > Let's also include Longwood Farm in St Helena as a
> > non-sovereign foreign territory. It's a French farm
> > where Napoleon died in British territory. I think
> > Catudal also mentions a radio station and a war
> > memorial in Berlin that were similar.
>
>The war memorial, would that be the "Neue Wache",
>where East-German soldiers stood guard on West-
>Berlin territory? Does anybody have more information
>on this?
>
>Where was the radio station, please?
>
>About tripoints: I'm not at all versed on tripoints,
>and have no live experience at all (yet..), but I
>can't help noticing a subtle difference between
>points when I look at a European map.
>
>Obviously there are wet and dry ones, there are
>those that are not precisely determined (am I
>right about that? I think of Austria-Switzerland-
>Germany), and there are those that are repeated.
>There are for example two Austria-Liechtenstein-
>Switzerland tripoints, and two Spain-Andorra-
>France tripoints.
>
>Do you tripointologists do this kind of categorization
>at all? It should be interesting to hear some of
>you elaborate on the matter.
>
>Mats
>
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