Subject: Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
Date: Sep 15, 2002 @ 21:37
Author: Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
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> I think it's one of these claims that can never be proved. The
definition
> of a city seems to vary between countries and I'm not aware of
> international standards in this respect :-(
The same thing is going on at the other end of the world: the
Argentinians describe Ushuaia as "the southernmost town in the
world", while south across the Beagle Channel lies the Chilean
settlement of Puerto Williams, which the Chileans call "the
southernmost town in the world".

Grant