1. [BoundaryPoint] British External Terrritories and French ones!
    Thanks everyody for the detailed and useful information on U.S. External Territories. It would be nice to discover if and which are the DISPUTED islands
    Apr 14, 2005 @ 10:14 - fabio ("fabio" <fabiov@...>)
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    Fabio, ... There are two categories of external territory - British Crown Dependency and British Overseas Territory. The Crown Dependencies are the Bailiwick
    Apr 14, 2005 @ 12:42 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
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    ... With respect to the French External territories, there are more or less three types - Overseas Departments (Départements d outre-mer), Territorial
    Apr 14, 2005 @ 13:16 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
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    ... you are welcome fabio most of our apparent erudition comes rather cheaply tho since many standard reference sources answer all such questions in the
    Apr 14, 2005 @ 14:09 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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    ... The CIA Factbook is a fairly decent reference, but it does contain inaccuracies and omissions. For example, it makes no mention of any of the national
    Apr 14, 2005 @ 15:04 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
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    Plus: it lists international conflicts that exist only in the fantasy of some and are of historical interest: Olivenza - between Portugal and Spain. Wolfgang
    Apr 14, 2005 @ 16:18 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
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    Interesting list - We could find the definitive lists for all these countries in the UPU guides to world post offices, but they charge a lot of money for it.
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 02:36 - L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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    That was about the nicest way I ve ever seen anyone tell someone else to do their own looking up . That is not meant sarcastically or to be criticism. We
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 02:41 - L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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    Hi, I m new to this group. Here s my own list of US territories: U.S. Insular Areas: 1. American Samoa (Pago Pago) 2. Baker Island and Howland Island 3.
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 04:41 - Seÿffffe1n O'Connell (=?iso-8859-1?q?Se=FFffffe1n=20O'Connell?= <gleannmaghair@...>)
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    Len, ... As far as I know, the Falklands no longer has any dependencies. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands were formerly administered as Falklands
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 07:38 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
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    ... There are officially a single territory, although the three main islands are separated by hundreds of miles of ocean. ... Rockall is not a territory, but
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 07:57 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
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    Rockall: I thought it had been made part of Inverness-shire, instead. Wolfgang ... Von: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]Im
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 10:27 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
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    Wolfgang, ... That is a former county which no longer exists (at least from a local government point of view). Rockall was formerly part of Inverness-shire,
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 10:47 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
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    Kevin: Good to know for me, should I ever reach that place... See http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/rockall-ho/2005-team.html - you ll see me as part of the
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 12:41 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
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    thanx len tho my actual point may have escaped in all this niceness which is not at all to tell anyone off of anything but rather to reinvite everyone on to
    Apr 15, 2005 @ 15:49 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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    ... yikes but why is all that so unfortunate i would have thought having somewhere left to go & grow on ones quest would be a compound blessing in fact wouldnt
    Apr 16, 2005 @ 05:05 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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    ... islands ... While this may now be legally true, administratively the two former dependencies are virtually on their own. Ascension and Tristan both have as
    Apr 17, 2005 @ 02:19 - Henry Hirose ("Henry Hirose" <silentcity@...>)
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    ... It is certainly a curious arrangement, and no doubt done for administrative convenience because the same ship supplies all three islands. In the case of
    Apr 17, 2005 @ 09:20 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <knm@...>)
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    ... former ... administrative ... the case ... (although ... the other ... While it used to be more true to say that RMS St. Helena served Tristan Da Cunha,
    Apr 17, 2005 @ 12:01 - Henry Hirose ("Henry Hirose" <silentcity@...>)
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    I think Ascension is seeking residents to build up a tax base now that the US NASA base closed. LN ... administrative ... case ... (although ... other ...
    Apr 19, 2005 @ 03:24 - L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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    About St Helena. Do you know that there is a small french territory on this island : the Napoleon s house and the garden. It was given for present to France.
    Apr 18, 2005 @ 19:20 - Romain HODAPP ("Romain HODAPP" <romain_hodapp@...>)
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    So it is an enclave !!! Not necessarily so, Romain. The French Republic also owns a small piece of land around the memorial commemorating Latour d Auvergne s
    Apr 19, 2005 @ 07:24 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
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    but is it really an enclave or just a piece of real estate owned by france
    Apr 19, 2005 @ 07:21 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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    I m supposing you are right. I wrote it to see reactions on the group. May be more on this link : http://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/tourism/museums2.html I don t
    Apr 19, 2005 @ 08:21 - Romain HODAPP ("Romain HODAPP" <romain_hodapp@...>)
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    http://geosciences.ou.edu/~bweaver/Ascension/longwood.htm this link too Romain
    Apr 19, 2005 @ 08:26 - Romain HODAPP ("Romain HODAPP" <romain_hodapp@...>)
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    reactions hahaha well then youve made your point by getting a rise out of our self styled provocateur himself hahaha but he must have fallen asleep perhaps
    Apr 19, 2005 @ 11:47 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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    One for our multidimensional spiritualist-dude: A nice collection of historical tripoints and boundary markers of all sorts can be found in front of the
    Apr 19, 2005 @ 12:26 - Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
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    hahaha thats the spirit but where is it
    Apr 19, 2005 @ 12:41 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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    ... understand better than me. I visited both places, Longwood and Napoleon s first tomb, and got brief local explanations. I think they were simply French
    Apr 20, 2005 @ 06:14 - Henry Hirose ("Henry Hirose" <silentcity@...>)