Excuse me for bringing this mess into
this group....
but,
When I refer to my Radio-amateurs handbook I
find:
Cyprus = AS (Asia)
(it is recognised as one entity, but it has another seperate
entity on it: UK Sov. Base Areas.)
And to give some answers to Peter:
Papua New Guinea = OC (Oceania)
Indonesia = OC
Egypt = AF (Africa)
Panama = NA (North America)
Azores = EU (Europe)
Canary Islands = AF (and so is Madeira)
Jan Mayen = EU
Greenland = NA
Armenia = AS
Azerbaijan (do you mean that by Azeri?) = AS
By the way Italy has some islands which are in AF: Isole di
Pantelleria.
Turkey and Russia are EU and AS.
Bolivia is SA but has NA islands (a.o. Baja
Nuevo).
Japan, including Ogasawara, is AS but Minami Torishima is
OC.
Antarctica is divided into a SA (South America), AF and an OC
part!
Heard Island, according to its call-sign allocation
"connected" to Australia (which is OC), is AF.
Tripoints according to my Map of the World for Amateur
Radio:
EU/AS/AF in the Mediterranean Sea at app. 28 deg. east. and 32
deg. north.
AS/OC/NA in the Pacific Ocean at app. 180 deg. east and 43
deg. north.
NA/SA/OC in the Pacific Ocean at app. 120 deg. west and 1 deg.
north.
AF/OC/AS in the Indian Ocean at app. 90 deg. east and 1 deg.
south.
AF/AS/OC not on the map, but I assume it is on the
geographical South Pole.
This map has some loose ends by the way. 180 deg. east/west is
in the center of the map (it is of Japanese origin). The NA/SA line dissapears
at the right end of the map and the NA/EU and EA/AF line vanish at the left
edge...... so no tripoints.
Radio-amateurs use a list of entities (which extends a country
list). It is called the DXCC list and has 334 in total on the
moment.
I admit it is trivial to breng this list in this group, but is
has "official" components like call-sign allocation by the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU).
For more info you might look at www.arrl.org and search for "dxcc".
gl
Harry ten Veen