Well Mike I wrote to the webmaster of newafrica.com (the only address I could find on the site, the e-mail bounced back saying the guy's inbox was to full....
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Mats Hessman
Mats@...
Jan 1, 2001 8:50 pm
... I haven't really thought of how to define historic geographic anomalies, but let me try right away: Because they are historic they should be gone, in one...
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Jesper & Nicolette Ni...
jesniel@...
Jan 1, 2001 8:57 pm
Where is that Dutch exclave? Are we talking about the piece of land attached to Belgium where the town of Terneuzen is? Jesper ... From: "Mats Hessman"...
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Mats Hessman
Mats@...
Jan 1, 2001 9:15 pm
... It's a tiny spot of Dutch soil, less than 500x300 meters. The nearest Belgian village is Vossenberg Ginhoven just west of Zondereigen. The exclave itself...
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Jesper & Nicolette Ni...
jesniel@...
Jan 1, 2001 10:10 pm
That is the small field we are all talking about. Unfortunately there are no demarcation for the field. Peter lend me a map of that region 1:25000 and it's...
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Arif Samad
fHoiberg@...
Jan 1, 2001 10:27 pm
Mike - I thought Georgia interrupted South Carolina's march to Pacific, so thought it was an exclave. But, as I have mentioned, I did not get to look at the...
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michael donner
m@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:07 am
dear arif glad you pursed this as it is interesting ... the boundary between ma & ny was controversial from early times & was not agreed upon in any sense til...
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michael donner
m@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:10 am
dear mats ... actually we have reason to hope it is not unique for it may prove to be 1 of perhaps 5 similar international boundary crosses aka binational...
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michael donner
m@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:11 am
thanx & good news jesper that was uncannily fine tuning by both of us to complete the millennium pass by snail mail on a sunday yes the yellow paper was...
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Mats Hessman
Mats@...
Jan 2, 2001 7:45 am
Michael, ... This is intriguing! After reading your message I took out my touristic map of Baarle, which is unfortunately not very accurate (which is proven by...
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Gartner Wolfgang
WGartner@...
Jan 2, 2001 12:21 pm
hallo, after reading more than 1000 interesting messages in your group I would like to send you a zipped file of my GEBC papers. <<BorderPoint.zip>> Hope that...
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Jesper & Nicolette Ni...
jesniel@...
Jan 2, 2001 4:28 pm
Hello Wolfgang Thanks for joining our group and adding such great contributions. What is your relation to Peter the Great? Do you have any if these photos on a...
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michael donner
m@...
Jan 2, 2001 4:32 pm
gartner gartner we are silent only because we are speechless thank you for finally arriving we wash your feet & your entire village i just had to take a...
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Jesper & Nicolette Ni...
jesniel@...
Jan 2, 2001 8:32 pm
I have a tourist Baarle Map 1:8300. It's named "plattegrond" from 1999. The Belgium part is hatched. I see the triangle and inverted U-shape. As I see the map...
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Jesper & Nicolette Ni...
jesniel@...
Jan 2, 2001 8:33 pm
This is a great border site!!! I have a question for Wolfgang: I would like to follow the border on the pictures. How do I see where the border line goes? Do...
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Mats Hessman
Mats@...
Jan 2, 2001 9:06 pm
... Are you quite sure? I think I am looking at the same map. Mine is 1:8300 and the Belgian fragments are hatched in a red (hard-to-read) color. On my map the...
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Jesper & Nicolette Ni...
jesniel@...
Jan 2, 2001 9:08 pm
I would like to add a comments to my 9 times in 2½ km crossing mail. I know of a place between Holland and Germany called Heringsbosch (Peter is of course the...
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Jesper & Nicolette Ni...
jesniel@...
Jan 2, 2001 9:20 pm
Mats according to my (Peters) 1:8300 Baarle map all of the pink main road is hatched. Donkerstraat looks also to be all Belgium apart from a tiny part of the...
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Mats Hessman
Mats@...
Jan 2, 2001 9:33 pm
Jesper, The print date of my map is 1995. Since your map is newer, I suppose it should contain the best information. Too bad... Here is a (bad-quality...
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Brendan Whyte
brwhyte@...
Jan 2, 2001 11:17 pm
Go to Connecticut State Library faq page at: http://www.cslnet.ctstateu.edu/faq.htm and read about border jog. Also a discussion there about the "panhandle"...
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Brendan Whyte
brwhyte@...
Jan 2, 2001 11:29 pm
I am doing a thesis on enclaves, so know all the cases fairly well. An enclave must be 100% surrounded by another country, so most of your examples are...
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Brendan Whyte
brwhyte@...
Jan 2, 2001 11:42 pm
This one gives you an idea: ...
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Brendan Whyte
brwhyte@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:03 am
... The 1:25 000 of each country are the best. I have 1:10 000 from each, but these arel ittle more than enlargements, with thicker lines and no more detail...
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michael donner
m@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:30 am
fellow punctophiles a dizzying delight to see such varied & multi ringed circuses firing fat ladies from the cannons all at once i dont know where to run first...
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Gartner Wolfgang
WGartner@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:43 pm
hi everybody I can't believe your quick responses to my little summary of tripoints in Europe. At the moment I am really only interested in historical...
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Brendan Whyte
brwhyte@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:00 pm
... No, the Cypriot bases are Brit sovereign terriroty. All cyprus was British until 1960. Some (ie 99%) was made independent as the Rep of Cyprus. The rest...
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Mats Hessman
Mats@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:06 pm
... Where can I find Robinson's journal articles, please? What journal or journals would that be? Mats...
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michael donner
m@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:58 pm
hi brendan congrats to you & our other members on the extreme bounding quiz i gather from the answers you are fairly convinced there is 1 & only 1 boundary...
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michael donner
m@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:58 pm
hi wolfgang what fun to fly directly from 214 to 369 & will just have to imagine the rest for now also i apologize for not mentioning it sooner but i for one...
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Jesper & Nicolette Ni...
jesniel@...
Jan 3, 2001 7:04 pm
Thanks for info. Link do not work - here is a better one: http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/westbengal/railways/kochbihar.htm Jesper ... From: "Brendan Whyte"...
