>From: Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] What is an enclave
>Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 22:27:17 -0800
>
>Craig Oakford wrote:
> > I'm new to this group. What is an enclave?
>
>A bit of territory entirely surrounded by some other state, as the
>Vatican city-state is surrounded by the Italian Republic; but usually we
>mean a piece detached from its parent state; examples include
>
>- numerous bits of India and Bangladesh, clustered
> along the northernmost part of their border
>- Iordan, Uzbekistan, surrounded by Kyrgyzstan
>- (formerly) West Berlin
>- Baarle-Hertog, Belgium, surrounded by Baarle-Nassau, Netherlands
> (and that's simplifying it!)
>- Buesingen, Germany, surrounded by Switzerland
>- Llivia, Spain, surrounded by France
>
>I'm not entirely sure, but believe an "exclave" is a detached piece
>surrounded by two or more other states, like
>
>- Nakhichevan, Azeri territory, between Armenia and Iran
>- the westernmost bit of Kentucky, between Missouri and Tennessee
I would term these 'fragments'. An exclave is a special type of fragment,
one that is surrounded by one other unit. It must be landlocked too.
Nakhichevan is a landlocked fragment, but not an exclave.
>
>or (more often) by a foreign state(s) and water, as
>
>- Cabinda, separated from Angola by Congo
>- the northernmost bit of Oman, separated by UAE
>- Kaliningrad (East Prussia), Russia, on the Baltic
> between Poland and Lithuania
>- Campione, Italy, on Lake Lugano, bounded on land by Switzerland
>- Ceuta, Spain, on the Morocco shore
>- the Northwest Angle, Minnesota
>- Point Roberts, Washington
These are also fragments. Coastal fragments. Northwest Angle is a
pene-exclave. It is connected to the US by US lake waters. But apart from
boats and planes, is accessible by land only via another unit, Canada.
>Of course, e[nx]claves can occur at other levels. The western Swiss
>cantons are especially fragmented. O'Hare Airport is an exclave of
>telephone area 773, bounded by 630 and 847 (it was kept with central
>Chicago in the split of 1989).
And many national parks have pockets of private land in them, or outlying
patches of park within private land.
BW
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