Subject: Re: next border expedition to set sail shortly
Date: Jun 30, 2003 @ 14:05
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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since it is already surprising that these questions
neither of which involves anything terribly unusual
keep coming up at all
it is almost no surprise to find them confused for one another

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
<jesniel@i...> wrote:
> Well, Christiansø and Frederiksø are normal, regular,
integrated parts of ordinary Denmark. Greenland and the Faro
islands aren't.
>
> But Christiansø and Frederiksø do not belong to any
municipality of county.
>
> I think Jan Mayen has go the status "Norwegian External
Territory".
>
> Jesper
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jan S. Krogh
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 9:05 PM
> Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: next border expedition to set
sail shortly
>
>
> 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@i...]
> 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.
>
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