According to the BBC documentary series 'frontiers', both the book and TV
series, the islands (Conference) is administered for 6months by each
country, which does the garening on it. There was footage of a boat going
over to garden, watch ed by the narrator.
That programme is now 10 years old i think??
Brendan
>From: Peter Smaardijk Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com To:
>BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Ile de la
>Conf�rence Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:05:45 +0100
>
>What I wanted to say was that there is some confusion about the name of the
>island. Ile de la Conf�rence is the small one, Ile des Faisans the big one
>that isn't an island anymore. According to Descheemaeker, the condominium
>has always been the small one, which was possibly at one time called Ile
>des Faisans, but this name got transferred to the big one. So there is more
>confusion about the name then there is about the place. The condominium is
>situated in the middle of the Bidassoa. So the island _is_ wedged in
>between France and Spain. And in my opinion those tripoints do exist.
>
>I visited the spot last autumn and made some slides. I will try to put some
>of these on a web site or so in the coming week or two.
>
>Peter
>
>Michael Donner wrote:
>
> > > > another very nice one peter > > the photo in the link & the
>published map give reason to expect a pair of condominial tripoints at >
>the ends of the island > > namely > > fr frsp sp e > > & > > fr frsp sp w >
> > but your description & the hand drawn map suggest that the condominium
>territory may have become > enclaved within or entirely surrounded by
>french territory within the river > > > > can you say which is the actual
>situation on the ground > > > > m > > > > i know some people may not think
>international tripoints as significant as trinational ones > > but they all
>do seem to me to belong in the same premier or world class > > > > such
>acknowledgement would also help to appreciate the true nature of the
>dipunctitrilines > > or tricountry lines with condominial tripoint bookends
> > > that occur in the tripoint areas normally simplified as bedelu &
>defrlu > > & perhaps elsewhere > > > > > > > >From: Peter Smaardijk >
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com > >To:
>"BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com" > >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Ile de la
>Conf�rence > >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:10:13 +0100 > > > ><<
>conf_ign25.jpg >> > ><< conf_descheemaeker.jpg >>
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