Subject: Re: Indian mess - French to blame?
Date: Apr 27, 2001 @ 23:28
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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It looks like there are three types of boundary divided islands at
stake here:

1. (the bigger islands) There were settlements at different points,
from where sovereignty was extended until a boundary was formed/had
to be drawn.
2. The boundary was already there, drawn without knowledge of what
was in the way, and an island happened to be in the way so it was cut
in two
3. The island was purposely used as a boundary marker.

The last type is the 'Scandinavian' one, by the looks of it. It is,
however, somewhat similar to the Ile de la Conference, which is a
condominium, but is also some sort of a hyper-boundary marker on the
esfr boundary. It is explicitely characterised like this by
Descheemaeker, and truly a monument to Spanish-French co-operation.
Although Basque people would think otherwise, I guess. But they can
continue to view it as a monument that keeps North and South together.

Peter S.

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Arif Samad <fHoiberg@y...> wrote:
>
> Brendan, Thank you for the research. I guess
> Goretty disappeared as an enclave at some time. I
> have not been able to find the 1991 census handbook,
> so you are definitely more current.
> I should have rephrased my question on divided
> islands. I noticed there are other islands that are
> divided, but the big islands mentioned were divided
> with full knowledge of colonial consequences. They
> are big islands that had to be divided as different
> groups were in control of parts before the islands
> were eventually divided and the division couldn't be
> circumvented. Only US-Canada and Scandinavian borders
> seem to divide tiny islands that could easily be
> circumnavigated by the boundary lines. I wonder why
> that is. Mike's explanation makes a lot of sense
> though. Then again, all of them could just be
> mistakes.
> Brendan, don't you have the points for Baarle?
> Maybe you could create excel charts of the small
> enclaves in Baarle like ones done for Cyprus.
> Arif
>
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