Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Largest enclave
Date: Mar 13, 2001 @ 03:51
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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thats ok
i am sure we would all love to hear from martin on this or any other topic

& i too should have meant peter & wolfgang when i actually said gartner a
few messages ago

but i think the only primary examples of what you are talking about might be
cabinda
kaliningrad
& nakhichevan

oh & musandam
if iranian waters are considered


& if territorial waters are generally considered
then of course there are many examples of distant island exclaves
greenland again probably being the preeminent one

m

>
>Oops... I meant Brendan of course. Sorry
>
>Peter S.
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., peter.smaardijk@a... wrote:
>> Martin,
>>
>> Why is it so important that the exclave is surrounded by only one
>> other unit? In other words, why can't the municipality of Voeren in
>> Belgium be an exclave of Flanders? That it isn't an enclave, I can
>> see. But it is an exclave (in my humble opinion) to Flanders. For
>the
>> Flemish it is of little importance that it is wedged between the
>> Netherlands and Wallonia.
>>
>> I'm taking this secundary level example to make my point, because I
>> can't think of an international one right now. But I hope you
>> understand what I mean.
>>
>> Peter S.
>>
>> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...> wrote:
>> > No. No claves, ex or en.
>> > The mainland bit i would call a fragment of the island, as the
>> island has
>> > the larger population and more importantly the capital. The
>> mainland is
>> > larger in area, but still a fragment, as it is peripheral.
>> > ***********
>> > David pulled me up on a fine point:
>> > an enclave or exclave must be surrounded entirely by one other
>unit.
>> > An enclave is inside you and an exclave is a PIECE of you inside
>> someome
>> > else.
>> > Eq. Guinea is and has neither of these.
>
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