Baarle-Nassau - The town is the site of a complicated borderline between Belgium and Netherlands, with numerous small exclaves of Belgium, of which some contain counter-exclaves of the Netherlands.
Northwestern Point of the Lake of the Woods
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Re: Northwestern Point of the Lake of the Woods
#22As someone whose line of work is land titles and surveying, this is particularly interesting! Good find.
Would love an AMA from you. Property law is surely some of the oldest law, and how we define and understand boundaries and ownership must come with so may interesting dives into old laws, deeds, titles, etc.
I'd be happy to, except that I'm Australian... I might not have relevant enough insight for most HN'ers!
Re: Northwestern Point of the Lake of the Woods
#23There's a number of irregularities between the US and Canadian border. Johnny Harris, who used to (still is? seems unclear) film the Vox series "Borders", did a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvvicd07zCs Basically, the border is largely the 49th parallel and some seemingly arbitrary lines on the East Coast and Alaska. But since they were done in the 18th/19th century without regard for existing settleme…
I live in Montreal, which is 6 hours' drive due north of NYC. It is actually farther south than Portland, OR. In fact, by far the majority of Canada's population is south of the 49th parallel. The border is weird to the east.
Re: Northwestern Point of the Lake of the Woods
#24There's a number of irregularities between the US and Canadian border. Johnny Harris, who used to (still is? seems unclear) film the Vox series "Borders", did a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvvicd07zCs Basically, the border is largely the 49th parallel and some seemingly arbitrary lines on the East Coast and Alaska. But since they were done in the 18th/19th century without regard for existing settleme…
I live in Montreal, which is 6 hours' drive due north of NYC. It is actually farther south than Portland, OR. In fact, by far the majority of Canada's population is south of the 49th parallel. The border is weird to the east.
There's also Detroit, MI and Windsor, ON, which is the only land border crossing where you go south into Canada and north into the US.