Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Largest enclave
Date: Mar 13, 2001 @ 23:19
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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>Jungholz meets one part of the definition ("100% surrounded by anotherIn this case 100% surrounded by another unit does NOT equate to separated.
>unit") but not the other ("separated from that unit").
>I do not at all like the above definition of an exclave precisely becauseSo still landlocked? Rules out Kalinigrad?
>it is exactly complementary to the definition of enclave. By these
>definitions, all exclaves must be enclaves and all enclaves must be
>exclaves. So, in this case, as Brandon says, why have two terms?
>
>BUT
>If an exclave is defined as a disconnected piece of a unit that one cannot
>reach except by going through one or more other units of the same 'level'.
>andAnd Jungholz is neither also? So remains a pene-enclave and a
>an enclave is defined as the territory filling a hole or void within a
>unit, completely surrounded by that unit, then:
>
>classics such as Llivia and the Baarle fragments are both enclaves and
> exclaves
>Lesthoto is an enclave of South Africa but not an exclave
>the disconneced piece of Kentucky (western Fulton county) is an exclave of
>Kentucky but not an enclave of anything
>Andorra is neither.
>