It is more like the Int'l peace park on the caus border....
more info at www.peacegarden.com
bob beckett
hollis, nh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Smaardijk [mailto:smaardijk@...]
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 2:03 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Morkulien joint admin area
>
>
> While being an interesting place, I don't think this is a real
> condominium. It is more like the Int'l peace park on the caus border,
> or the European monumental park on the belu border near bedelu.
>
> See Statens Kartverks site for a map. Border marker no. 67 is next to
> the "Fredsmonumentet" ("The Peace Monument"), but no condominal
> boundaries are depicted.
>
> Peter S.
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jan Krogh" <jakro64@y...> wrote:
> > You are correct, Ray!
> > The place was established in 1914 as an unofficial "free state" by
> Norwegian
> > and Swedish peace organisations. They rised also a huge 18 meters
> high
> > monument for 100 years of Norwegian and Swedish peaceful co-
> existence.
> > From the (Swedish) Morokulien post office it was (is?) possible to
> send
> > letters etc. partly with Swedish stamps and partly with Norwegian
> stamps.
> > "Moro" (Norw.) = "fun"; "Kul" (Swed.) = fun". Morokulien was
> established in
> > 1959 after a radio show initiative ("Over alle grenser").
> > Officially the unpopulated place is located on both sides of the
> border of
> > Eidskog municipality (NO) and Eda (?) municipality (SE).
> > Norwegian and Swedish (as well as other Nordic) citizens can freely
> pass the
> > border without bringing their passports, as whereever within the
> five Nordic
> > countries.
> > Sweden and Norway have both allocated special amateur radio
> prefixes for
> > Morokulien.
> > Jan
> > Vilnius, Lithuania
> > http://home.no.net/enklaver
>
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