The NW corner of NSW is not part of any shire or city. It is termed
'unincorporated area' on maps.

Likewise French island, a rural holiday retreat in Western Port bay, Vic is
unincorporated, as are several offshore Vic. islands, and the Yallourn coal
mines in the La Trobe valley in SE Vic.

Much of south Australia is also unincorporated, with no local government
responsible for it. It was never subdivided for surveying purposes because
it's pretty inhospitable.
There's even a national park in NW SA that has no name. Maps say "unnamed
national park". It's THAT remote.

Chatham Islands NZ were a county when all of NZ was under county government.
But when the 'mainland' was rejigged into regions and districts in the
1980s, the chathams were left outside this, and remain the only county
government in NZ.

Various areas in England were extraparochial, which meant important things
when parishes were responsible for their own poor relief.

BW

>From: "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: dutch provinces -> oddities in terr. hierarchy
>Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 20:18:15 -0000
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > I have just looked it up. It was on January 1, 1986, that Flevoland
> > came into existence.
>
>Before that, the territory of the two Flevolands was known as the
>Public Body of the Southern IJsselmeer polders (the Noordoostpolder
>and the former islands of Urk and Schokland, of which Schokland was
>already a part of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, were part of
>the province of Overijssel back then). This territory was special in
>this respect, that it didn't belong to any province. The territory
>didn't belong to any municipality, either. Afterwards, municipalities
>were formed (first Dronten, then Lelystad). The areas that weren't
>divided in the normal way had a so-called Landdrost at the head of
>the administration, instead of a mayor. This is comparable to the
>bigger areas which belonged to the Netherlands between 1949 and 1963,
>which were annexed pieces of Germany, i.e. Elten and the West
>Selfkant. These areas were so-called Drostambts, governed by a
>landdrost. They were no normal Dutch municipalities, although I read
>somewhere that at least the landdrost of the West Selfkant did answer
>to the Limburgish provincial government (but I stand corrected on
>this...).
>
>Which brings me to another interesting item: areas that are not
>subject to the "normal" territorial subdivisional principles. Could
>someone give some examples of these (other than colonies and other
>obvious overseas areas, and various federal districts)?
>
>Peter S.
>

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