Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Indian mess - French to blame?
Date: Apr 26, 2001 @ 10:36
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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The lovely full colour map of calcutta in the rear of the 1991 census
handbook (series 26, part xiiA and xiiB, Calcutta Metropolitan District,
Town directory and primary census abstract) does not show the enclave any
more, but shows Chandernagore proper.

>I am going to end with a question. Does anybody have
>an idea why it is so normal to have divided islands in
>Scandinavia, but nowhere else.

Um... Boundary islet, Vic/Tas,
there is a divided island in a lake in Vt or NH between Ca & US.
Haiti
St Martin
New guinea
Borneo
Cyprus
Ireland
...

BW


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