further musings inspired by brendan
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> There does seem to be at least one quadpoint where
>2 Bengal enclaves meet, but it is in the middle of a river (or at least was
>in 1930 when the map was drawn). I had to work with old British mapping when
>in the area, but the road network and the villages and the rivers had all
>dramatically changed in the intervening period.
wonderful
it sounds like a job for our bp amphibious dreamscape recovery unit
>Once i have all my notes in one place, i will regale you with tales of
>enclave derring-do, and maybe a photo or two. Am currently in England.
excellent
we will be all earholes & eyeholes here too
>
>For those in the SW of the USA, check out the Navajo and Hopi reservations
>in NE Az (who hated 2 and 3 letter abbrevs? ;-) )
>One is enclaved in the other.
be our guest anyhow you like
i especially like to abbr the abbrevs
not for the brevity especially
but for that casual effect
in fact it usually takes longer because you have to wonder if you will be
understood
anyway i see the navahopi actually have a second order enclave too
just like those in baarle & bengal
surrounding a navajo village called jeddito embedded within hopiland
itself entirely within the greater navajoland
no mere ordinary enclaves here
>Several Indian reservations in the US are also chequerboards fo squares,
>each 1 square mile. Like a chequerboard, the black squares belong to the
>natives, and the white squares to the whites... ironic, huh? ;-) See the
>area around Palm Springs especially. Often Federal land is also in such a
>pattern. The DeLorme state topographic road atlases often have a central
>page for the SW states, showing land ownership by Fed dept, private, state
>etc.
aha
so here is something that transcends even the basic boundary cross marvel
& reaches into chains & even networks of such intersections
almost defying rationalization & classification
of course if the american indians ever do produce even a small fraction of
the 557 independent nations they are now nominally if not also legally
capable of transforming themselves into
then we will probably have to deal with these boundary cross extravagances
on the world class aka international level as at jungholz
while they are now largely overlooked as subjurisdictional or scarcely
third order phenomena
but it gives us something staggering to look forward to
it seems to me the irony is not so much that the indians have almost
everywhere been backed up into the wastelands of tri state corners & other
compromised places like these checkerboards etc
but that they are now proceeding to leverage & parlay their utterly
impossible positions into many different sorts of prosperity
m