----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@image.dk>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Second division divided island

> Maybe second division island was a wrong term at the time.
>
> What I really meant was a child island which was divided as the mother
> island. If Guantanamo was true US soil then the island of Cuba would have
> been divided between Cuba and USA. The island of Flamingo Cay (see
> attachment) is right on the Cuba/US line and so a small copy of the mother
> island of Cuba.
>
> I haven't found so far other examples. The island of Sebatik came close,
but
> because the mother island also included Brunei it didn't work out. It
would
> have been a less interesting (but still interesting) speciment as Sebatik
is
> lying next to Borneo and not like Flamingo Cay having CUUS on each side.
>
> I also though of internal boundaries with a child division island copying
> the mother division island. In Denmark we haven't got any. The island of
> Amager is divided between Copenhagen County and Copenhagen Municipality
> (county status), but the motherland Zealand has more than these two
> counties. Copenhagen County part of Amager is by the way a pene exclave.
>
> Jesper
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@hotmail.com>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:27 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Second division divided island
>
>
> > hahaha
> > it makes perfect sense too
> > & we knew we were in for another fruit salad riot as soon as we
> > saw this marvelously ambiguous or really multibiguous question
> >
> > & it was my folly to endeavor to head off such a perfectly good riot
> > when any decent free for all is much better than nothing at all
> > dont you agree
> >
> > so please keep those questions coming everyone
> > whether understandable or multiunderstandable or not
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell
> > <knm@m...> wrote:
> > >
> > > >you will also have to pretend that either france or the
> > netherlands is a
> > > >legally divided island country
> > >
> > > Perhaps I misunderstood the question. I thought Jesper was
> > asking for
> > > islands where parts of, rather than whole second-level
> > divisions of
> > > different countries co-exist. Neither Ireland or possibly Borneo
> > would
> > > qualify on this basis, as the second-level divisions of these
> > islands are
> > > entirely self-contained.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Kevin Meynell
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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