Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Capitals vs. Borders<br/>
Date: Oct 03, 2001 @ 00:20<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1347297506">I think you can strike Uzbekistan and<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;Botswana - Tashkent and Gaborone are near, but not on, international<br/>
&gt;borders.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Before independence as Botswana, British Bechuanaland&#39;s administrative <br/>
capital was Mafeking, outside the protectorate.<br/>
<br/>
At the present, while most sources say Adamstown is the centre of Pitcairn <br/>
island, the Governor is the British consul in Auckland, an even greater <br/>
distance away. Likewise the police force for Pitcairn are the royal Kent <br/>
constabulary, in the UK!<br/>
<br/>
BW<br/>
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