Subject: Re: Perfs & Frags<br/>
Date: Nov 23, 2001 @ 20:15<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-277117957">Michael: <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; & am also still mystified enough to ask how there can be so many as<br/>
 </span></blockquote>324 fragments producing so few as 267 perforations<br/>
The figures have changed in the light of Brendan&#39;s recent recount of<br/>
the Bengali enclaves, and after a late catch of an error on my own<br/>
part. I&#39;d update the file, except I now seem to be cut off from it by<br/>
my recent change of e-mail address. Maybe I can ask Bill to chop out<br/>
the old one, and I&#39;ll upload a new one.<br/>
So (and barring the uncovering of further mistakes):<br/>
23 countries contain 270 perforations. These consist of:<br/>
<br/>
253   conventional land enclaves (exclaves of other countries)<br/>
  3   enclaved countries (Lesotho, Vatican, San Marino)<br/>
  4   high seas enclaves perforating national EEZs (eg Shikoku Basin)<br/>
  3   territories enclaved entirely by EEZs (eg St Pierre & Miquelon)<br/>
  7   territories enclaved by combined land & sea borders (eg Monaco)<br/>
<br/>
33 countries have a total of 321 detached fragments:<br/>
<br/>
253   conventional exclaves (enclaved by one other country)<br/>
 19   EEZ islands in the high seas (enclaved by Everyone&#39;s Land)<br/>
 49   other fragments, hemmed in by land and/or sea belonging to<br/>
       several nations<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; shouldnt everyones lands be treated as part of the topological<br/>
 </span></blockquote>mosaic rather than as gaps in it<br/>
I only missed it out because I felt I&#39;d treated it already in the<br/>
files on EEZ islands and high seas enclaves. My grand, bumper bonanza<br/>
Border Survey of the Whole World at the EEZ Level (coming real soon)<br/>
includes 193 countries + Everyone&#39;s Land on equal footing. <br/>
G</div>