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Hi Arif,
concerning divided islands in Scandinavia,
this is my guess:
1- they act as boundary markers - easy to
see, instead of buoys...
2- since most of Scandinavian border regions
are inhabited by only very few people,
conflicts over ownership make no
sense...
3- they symbolize good neighbourhood!
Anyway, Jesper and I are planning a short
2 day expedition to the southern part of the
SeNo border and plant BoundaryPoint's flag
on these islands - wanna come...?!?
Regards - good weekend
Peter H.
-------Original Message-------
From: Arif Samad
Date: Friday, April 27,
2001 23:49:57
Subject: Re:
[BoundaryPoint] Indian mess - French to blame? 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ | |||
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