1. Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    Jan, ... The Channel Island of Sark is pretty much an autocracy. The Seigneur leases the land (at the exorbitant rate of GBP 1.79 per annum ;-)) from the
    Sep 15, 2002 @ 13:31 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <kevin@...>)
  2. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    Kevin, Thanks for the information. After your information I may suggest that Svalbard is the biggest autocracy of West Europe. I would like to correct three
    Sep 15, 2002 @ 18:15 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  3. Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    Kevin Meynell wrote: The Channel Island of Sark is pretty much an autocracy. The Seigneur leases the land (at the exorbitant rate of GBP 1.79 per annum ;-))
    Sep 15, 2002 @ 18:41 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  4. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    Jan, ... 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
    Sep 15, 2002 @ 18:48 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <kevin@...>)
  5. Commercial territories (was Re: Jan Mayen)
    Peter, ... This was actually a fairly common arrangement in the early days of colonialism. The British territories in North American were held by the London
    Sep 15, 2002 @ 19:09 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <kevin@...>)
  6. Commercial territories (was Re: Jan Mayen)
    Yes, but Leopold II was one person - hence autocracy. Peter S. ... the ... Hudson Bay ... Crown. ... the East ... annexed ... in the ... also ... West Indies
    Sep 15, 2002 @ 20:06 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  7. Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    ... definition ... 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
    Sep 15, 2002 @ 21:37 - Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  8. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    ... City is a bit of a difficult definition. Only recently Michael Donner denounced my claim that Comines was a double-town on both sides of the border. I
    Sep 15, 2002 @ 21:44 - Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk <smaardijk@...>)
  9. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    According to what I found on the net the population of that city is 50 persons. It seems all are at CFS Alert. Earlier it used to be 200 personell there.
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 08:25 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  10. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    Kevin, I am sorry I wrote city . Probably I should have been writing town . (In Norwegian it is the same one word for both the English words, and American
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 08:35 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  11. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    Jan, ... Yes, this is yet another issue. I believe it s also the same in Dutch - stad refers to both a town and city - although there is the rather contrived
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 09:07 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <kevin@...>)
  12. Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    I have told this before here, but in the Netherlands there are no cities officially, except for Amsterdam that is the capital ( hoofdstad ) of the Netherlands
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 09:18 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  13. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    Kevin, Concerning Hammerfest I presume the population of the town itself was 6,488 on Jan 1st 1999. The question is therefor: Does it excist a bigger town
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 09:20 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  14. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    ... In order not to create any misconception, I deed not actually mean a town with a population bigger than 6,488 - but a town with a population higher than
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 10:48 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  15. Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    Barrow, Alaska, is north of Hammerfest, and approaching the Norwegian town fast as far as population is concerned): 2,207 (1980); 3,469 (1990); 4,581 (2000).
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 10:58 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  16. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    As far as I know, Brunei is almost wholly the Sultan s domain, so it might be the closest an independent country comes to an autocracy. Then again, the
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 14:12 - Arif Samad (Arif Samad <fHoiberg@...>)
  17. Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    ... Donner ... the ... are ... Netherlands, ... story, ... the ... they ... hahahahaha i didnt denounce anything you dear jerk as anyone can see by referring
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 21:33 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  18. Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    It s Mike again!... ... The ... of ... of ... there ... merged ... without ... of ... OK wrong word. You didn t like it... ... But I didn t disqualify
    Sep 16, 2002 @ 21:45 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  19. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    ... thanx so much but you are at it again o great smaarmy & i really must call you on it again & again until you get it for you do so deceive yourself please
    Sep 17, 2002 @ 23:56 - m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
  20. Mr. M Donner
    Sorry if I may sound naïf; is Mr. M Donner normal?
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 08:44 - marco_polito ("marco_polito" <marco_polito@...>)
  21. Re: Mr. M Donner
    ... No: he s extraordinary :) Grant
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 19:19 - Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  22. Re: Mr. M Donner
    ... its perfectly ok marco for he is glad you have finally reached here in any condition & normality is not an issue for him anyway since how could it matter
    Sep 19, 2002 @ 19:12 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  23. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
    I came to the same result. One thing made me wonder a bit. On this map http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/history/Arctic/BarrMap.gif I found that around Barrow there
    Sep 20, 2002 @ 07:50 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)