Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Capitals vs. Borders
Date: Oct 03, 2001 @ 19:07
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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thank you
thank you

in this case the fewer the merrier

m


>From: "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Capitals vs. Borders
>Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 10:20:50 +1000
>
>I think you can strike Uzbekistan and
> >Botswana - Tashkent and Gaborone are near, but not on, international
> >borders.
>
>Before independence as Botswana, British Bechuanaland's administrative
>capital was Mafeking, outside the protectorate.
>
>At the present, while most sources say Adamstown is the centre of Pitcairn
>island, the Governor is the British consul in Auckland, an even greater
>distance away. Likewise the police force for Pitcairn are the royal Kent
>constabulary, in the UK!
>
>BW
>
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