Hi,

is there any information about the fact, that Sark doesnt belong to
the U.K., but the U.K. belongs to Sark. I read something like this in
the following link (in German, sorry).

http://www.geldbrief.li/Willkommen/Kurtzsche_Infos/Sark/sark.html

bye for now,
chris

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@c...>
wrote:

> > technically tho
> > arent such thingies just quirks of political subdivision
> > & isnt an exclave of an exclave still just another exclave of the
> homeland
>
> Well, sort of yes, sort of no. People who live on Sark in the

Channel

> Islands get some of their administration locally, some from

Guernsey

> (of which Sark is a dependency) and their international politics

and

> defence from the U.K. (of which Guernsey is a dependency). Whereas
> Guernsey gets its administration locally and its international
> affairs from the U.K. - no intermediate tier of government.
> Similarly, if you wanted to land on one of the Ile Glorieuses,

you'd

> seek permission from Reunion, not directly from France.
> So I do feel there's a difference - a sort of sub-letting of
> administrative responsibility - which doesn't occur in your example
> of a higher-order enclave, which is still directly responsible to

the

> home government. A higher order enclave is only topologically
> different from other enclaves, not administratively.
>
> Grant