My opinion (and I stress it is just that): dry land, which includes internal water (Campione,
Malawi), and possibly (although I would go a long way with what Brendan says about this) territorial
water. But international water - no way (or rather: then there _is_ a way to get in/out of a clave).

But you wouldn't expect a dictionary to go at such lenghts just to describe claves.....

Peter S.

michael donner wrote:

> >
> >In short: claves should always be surrounded by dry land.
>
> wow
> i wasnt expecting this conclusion either
>
> evidently you dont want to consider campione
> or the malawi mozambique pair
> or any of the spanish moroccan bunch
> as either true enclaves or true exclaves
>
> but that could be a result of the dutch etymology you mention below
> which seems entirely different from the french lock & key image
> so no wonder we dont entirely agree
>
> which after all is fine too
>
> i see also that everyone is coming at this from a different pet interest
> so all the more reason to differ
>
> but just so you know
> tho i enjoy it all
> my own greatest motivation is to dig up the tripoint gold that will be
> found deposited along the boundaries only of nonenclavic exclaves
> so that distinction at least is most important to me
>
> m