Subject: Re: re andorra condo or nondo<br/>
Date: Oct 17, 2001 @ 19:16<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1079297573"><blockquote><span title="qreply">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<br/>
(a.o.)<br/>
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&gt; like i think the tails of afghanistan & namibia were originally <br/>
designed to <br/>
&gt; be empty buffer zones<br/>
&gt; & so they never became independent countries as these others did<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;d like to know how the Afghan panhandle came into existence! But <br/>
the Namibian one was, as far as I know, not designed as a buffer of <br/>
any sort, but as an access for the Germans to the Zambezi river. The <br/>
story that I heard was that the Germans learned only afterwards that <br/>
this was not a practicable route to the Indian Ocean, because there <br/>
were the Victoria falls in the way. But this may be an urban (or <br/>
tropical?) legend.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S. </span></blockquote></div>