Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re andorra condo or nondo<br/>
Date: Oct 18, 2001 @ 20:08<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1458108515">yes well i guess i am already vindicated on wakhan by others<br/>
but for kaprivi consider this 19th century scenario<br/>
<br/>
all of africa is in the process of being carved up mainly but not only by <br/>
britain france portugal belgium & germany<br/>
& the competition for melds or corridors is absolutely tremendous<br/>
<br/>
britain aces out france across the north as well as belgium across the <br/>
center but must still outmaneuver both portugal & germany to the south<br/>
<br/>
the pincers of all 3 countries competing there<br/>
  angola mozambique<br/>
  bechuanaland rhodesia<br/>
  swafrica tanganyika<br/>
converge or try to converge to form a sort of asterisk shape that threatens <br/>
to produce a sexipoint<br/>
but the german buffer<br/>
or ok maybe it is just an easement & a ruse at that<br/>
ensures the cape to cairo british pink meld on all the old maps<br/>
rather than a solid violet german or yellow portuguese counterstripe<br/>
<br/>
is that a buffer<br/>
not nearly so much as wakhan<br/>
i agree<br/>
except that the strip did actually separate an erstwhile portuguese british <br/>
frontier<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;From: &quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:smaardijk@...">smaardijk@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Reply-To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
&gt;Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re andorra condo or nondo<br/>
&gt;Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:16:38 -0000<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;(a.o.)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; like i think the tails of afghanistan & namibia were originally<br/>
&gt;designed to<br/>
&gt; &gt; be empty buffer zones<br/>
&gt; &gt; & so they never became independent countries as these others did<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;I&#39;d like to know how the Afghan panhandle came into existence! But<br/>
&gt;the Namibian one was, as far as I know, not designed as a buffer of<br/>
&gt;any sort, but as an access for the Germans to the Zambezi river. The<br/>
&gt;story that I heard was that the Germans learned only afterwards that<br/>
&gt;this was not a practicable route to the Indian Ocean, because there<br/>
&gt;were the Victoria falls in the way. But this may be an urban (or<br/>
&gt;tropical?) legend.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Peter S.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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