Silliest border in the world
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Between the US and Canada: Port of Entry Point Roberts[^] Pretty normal you think, but zoom out the map a bit... Its a one mile square piece of the US all on its own and joined to Canada! What an utterly silly little piece of land and who the heck drew the border there? It hasn't got an airfield, it can only be accessed through Canada. As a US citizen there, whose police force do you use? Whose ambulance and hospital? Who supplies you with electricity, who empties your trash? :) The silliest piece of land on earth!
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Between the US and Canada: Port of Entry Point Roberts[^] Pretty normal you think, but zoom out the map a bit... Its a one mile square piece of the US all on its own and joined to Canada! What an utterly silly little piece of land and who the heck drew the border there? It hasn't got an airfield, it can only be accessed through Canada. As a US citizen there, whose police force do you use? Whose ambulance and hospital? Who supplies you with electricity, who empties your trash? :) The silliest piece of land on earth!
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Between the US and Canada: Port of Entry Point Roberts[^] Pretty normal you think, but zoom out the map a bit... Its a one mile square piece of the US all on its own and joined to Canada! What an utterly silly little piece of land and who the heck drew the border there? It hasn't got an airfield, it can only be accessed through Canada. As a US citizen there, whose police force do you use? Whose ambulance and hospital? Who supplies you with electricity, who empties your trash? :) The silliest piece of land on earth!
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Between the US and Canada: Port of Entry Point Roberts[^] Pretty normal you think, but zoom out the map a bit... Its a one mile square piece of the US all on its own and joined to Canada! What an utterly silly little piece of land and who the heck drew the border there? It hasn't got an airfield, it can only be accessed through Canada. As a US citizen there, whose police force do you use? Whose ambulance and hospital? Who supplies you with electricity, who empties your trash? :) The silliest piece of land on earth!
Looks like the border was drawn unknowingly wrong and then some classic 'Murken (am am guessing his name was Roberts), decided to have a development project. WOO HOO! MERIKA MERIKA! Rose the flags high and spat in the Kanuks faces.
Erudite_Eric wrote:
It hasn't got an airfield
Actually it does[^]. Also has a marina[^].
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Between the US and Canada: Port of Entry Point Roberts[^] Pretty normal you think, but zoom out the map a bit... Its a one mile square piece of the US all on its own and joined to Canada! What an utterly silly little piece of land and who the heck drew the border there? It hasn't got an airfield, it can only be accessed through Canada. As a US citizen there, whose police force do you use? Whose ambulance and hospital? Who supplies you with electricity, who empties your trash? :) The silliest piece of land on earth!
I've been to here: Another silly US/Canada border[^] Had a nice dinner at Angle Inlet. They do have an airstrip there but it's mostly used by fishermen.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Nice find, that was a great video.
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Between the US and Canada: Port of Entry Point Roberts[^] Pretty normal you think, but zoom out the map a bit... Its a one mile square piece of the US all on its own and joined to Canada! What an utterly silly little piece of land and who the heck drew the border there? It hasn't got an airfield, it can only be accessed through Canada. As a US citizen there, whose police force do you use? Whose ambulance and hospital? Who supplies you with electricity, who empties your trash? :) The silliest piece of land on earth!
There are some more corkers here[^]:
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I've been to here: Another silly US/Canada border[^] Had a nice dinner at Angle Inlet. They do have an airstrip there but it's mostly used by fishermen.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
That one's always amused me more since at first glance it's inexplicable; even though the Northwest Angle[^], like Point Roberts is the messy result of border treaties being written ahead of detailed surveys.
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Between the US and Canada: Port of Entry Point Roberts[^] Pretty normal you think, but zoom out the map a bit... Its a one mile square piece of the US all on its own and joined to Canada! What an utterly silly little piece of land and who the heck drew the border there? It hasn't got an airfield, it can only be accessed through Canada. As a US citizen there, whose police force do you use? Whose ambulance and hospital? Who supplies you with electricity, who empties your trash? :) The silliest piece of land on earth!
The New York Times printed a series of articles on these types of boundaries in various locations in the world.