Maybe you misunderstood me, Jesper. Or I did not catch what you have in mind.
As far as I know the Åland islands as well as Greenland and Jersey all do have local municipalities, but the mentioned Norwegian islands do not have that. Excluding Jan Mayen because it is military run, at least Svalbard is especially interesting as these about 2,300 civilian inhabitants (1,400 Norwegians and about 900 Russians) still are living under a feudal regime without any real democratic system.

Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper Nielsen [mailto:jesniel@...]
Sent: 29. juni 2003 21:37
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: next border expedition to set sail shortly

There are many of these strange attachments to countries like Åland islands, Greeland, Jersey etc etc. We know them, we geography freaks.

But these islands do not have any special external territoral status like that.