Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] County exclaves and fragments
Date: Sep 29, 2000 @ 21:34
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>more exotic dreamscapes
> there are two
>counties in Tenessee which has fragments very thinly
>connected, and they may be interesting too.
>i confess i am quite unawares all thruout this area
>I would like to make a web page. However, my domain
>server gave me trouble not taking pictures. If you
>want, I can go for a text page of quadripoints. Or
>somebody can give me a domain where I can upload. We
>may also want to go for quintipoints at even lower
>levels.
>neat
>Another interesting thing I wanted to mention
>was the enclave of Hebei that was created between
>Tientsin and Beijing when the two aforementioned
>city-provinces expanded and touched each other. If I
>am not mistaken, there are four tripoints between the
>three provinces.
>yes yes yes yes yes
> Are there many others?
>There are two other international enclaves that I want
>to mention. One is the Likoma Islands, which are
>Malawi territory, whose territorial waters around the
>islands are completely surrounded by Tanzanian waters.
> The second are five pieces of German territory in
>Belgium. What happens is that there is a railway,
>which is not only owned by Belgium, but it also owns
>the land on which the rail goes. When the railroad
>goes into German territory and comes back, it creates
>enclaves of German territory in between Belgium and
>the railway. There are five such enclaves. The
>enclaves show up as enclaves in German and Belgian
>topo maps.
>
>Arif