Colleagues,

Please be advised that this message is fairly long. If I voilate
some list-etiquette because of this, please let me know and
it won't be repeated.

I only recently found your community on the net, but I have
truly enjoyed browsing the message archive.

Although tripoints certainly is an interesting feature, I should
like to have some input on enclaves and exclaves.

We can probably agree on some definition of the words 'enclave'
and 'exclave', so let me extend the discussion to other interesting
geographic anomalies as well.

JUNGHOLZ
For quite some time I have wondered about the status of Jungholz,
so thank you for the recent clarification on this matter. I shall look
forward to the forthcoming reports from the single connection point.

LLIVIA, CAMPIONE D'ITALIA, BAARLE-HERTOG, BUESINGEN
These are fairly wellknown exclaves. Do you discuss them at all,
and if so, would anyone have any interesting links or maps?

MOUNT ATHOS
Is this an enclave? How much political independence is required
for us to consider a territory an enclave? By the way, does complete
maritime exclusion count, or do we only concern ourselves with
at least partly landlocked entities?

ST PIERRE ET MIQUELON
Speaking of maritime exclusion, do we consider the small french
islands just off the east coast of Canada an exclave?

GUANTANMO BASE
Guantanamo is an american naval base on Cuba. Does anyone
have any interesting input?

CASES OF EXCLAVES WITHIN EXCLAVES
Baarle-Hertog is a well-known example of the extremely rare case, where
exclaves exist within exclaves. There is allegedly another case in Oman.
Does anyone have any information on this? By the way, did you know
that there is at least one Dutch exclave within the main territory of
Belgium in the vicinity of Baarle? I'll scan a map and put it here if anyone

has interest in this fact.

LITHUANIA
Is there, or is there not, a lithuanian exclave within Belarus?

THE VATICAN
Does anyone have a *good* map of the Vatican? I'd like to be able to
see precisely where the border is.

CYPRUS
There seems to exist at least two british military bases, constituting
independent territories, on Cyprus, and at least one turk-cypriotic
exclave on the north-west coast of the island. Information, anyone?

CEUTA, MELILLA
Does anyone have information or good maps of the two spanish
exclaves on the moroccan coast?

NEUTRAL ZONES
What neutral zones do we know of? Are there neutral zones close to
Gibraltar, Ceuta and Melilla? And what happened to the rombic shaped
neutral zone in the desert between Saudi Arabia and Iraq? Is it still
there?

IRELAND
Was there ever an irish exclave within the territory of Northern Ireland?
I have a map that would suggest such a case, but it may well be a
badly produced map. Can anyone clarify this case?

HISTORIC GEOGRAPHIC ANOMALIES

Do you concern yourself at all with historic enclaves? As the supply of
living enclaves and exclaves is finite, why not look into some not-too-
long-gone cases?

WEST-BERLIN
Well, Berlin (West), surely the most well-known exclave of the near past.
But did you know that there were several sub-exclaves off Berlin, i. e.
areas within East-German territory belonging to West-Berlin? I have
found Eiskeller, Steinstuecken (connected to West-Berlin with a corridor
in 1971 or 1972, I think) and Falkenhagener Wiese. Were there others?
What are their stories? Does anyone know? I have a wonderful russian
map that outlines those sub-exclaves and I'll scan it if anyone is
interested.

ZARA or ZADAR
Zara was an italian exclave on the coast of Croatia, now called Zadar.
Does anyone have any information or maps?

PORKALA
Porkala was a large Soviet military base on the Finish south coast.
I think the area was rented by the Soviets as part of the peace treaty
following the second world war. Information, anyone?

DANZIGER FREISTAAT
Does anyone have any information on the State of Danzig, which existed
between the world wars? Good maps?

Regards,
Mats