Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Largest enclave
Date: Mar 13, 2001 @ 01:14
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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>Mont St. Michel is *****NOT***** disconnected from France at high tide,
>and was not disconnected from France even before the causeway was built,
>because France includes water as well as land!!!!!

Ok, bad example. Use Lindisfarne instead: no causeway. But you get the
point, there is a continuum of discontinuity from islands near the shore,
all the way to enclaves, which is important in the sense of access to/from
that fragment.
A peninsula the shape of Jungholz protruding into the sea is accessible and
administrable much easier before the point onnection erodes or is washed
away.
One can think of enclaves as being originally salients or peninsulas into
another country that have had their neck erodes or washed away.
Sokh is a good example, as it WAS a peninsula then was enclaved by having
its neck transferred to the surrounging state, in this case Kyrgyzstan.
Kaliningrad on the other hand was added to the original state, and is not a
remnant of an 'eroded' state.
Llivia is a remnant, not an addition, too.

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