- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- Re: Mr. M Donner
... No: he s extraordinary :) Grant
Sep 18, 2002 @ 19:19 - Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)