Just to put some guys at ease: Pepijn is right. The GCEBE has had a
happy and worthy conclusion in Baarle-Nassau. I too was present. So
the Eagle most surely has landed (..."we've got a bunch of guys about
to turn blue; we're breathing again").
Now on the subject of exclaves of exclaves: how about an exclave of
the German land Bremen, just NE of Bremerhaven (as is known an
exclave of Bremen itself): Fehrmoor. I don't have a detailed enough
map to be sure, but it looks like an exclave. Can someone confirm
(and possibly give some extra info)?
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., wertkauf@g... wrote:
> 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