Sunday Things - MORE SPAAAAAACE edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday July 22 2012
First of all, let's get the particularly SPAAAACE-oriented link out of the way:

Now on with the merely space-oriented linkage:


Bonus Peculiar Cartography corner:
- Strange Maps - "all kinds of intriguing maps - real, fictional, and what-if ones". (By the way, I love maps. Scattered around my flat: a huge nautical chart for the San Juan Islands, a geological map for where I grew up in the coal-mining East Midlands, 1950s geological maps and plans for mineral mines from Central America (a box filled with the things courtesy of Powell's Books!), an old walker's map of the Lake District, large-scale maps of Brussels, etc. etc. etc. - then I make fictitious ones in my day-job. Nice.) via isoma
- Baarle-Nassau - ridiculously complicated border between Belgium and the Netherlands. There's a bit of the Netherlands surrounded by Belgium surrounded by the Netherlands...
- Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River, Part IV - I think I'm going to be printing out these maps...
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1. Exclaves
Posted by Cargo Cult at 3:31PM, Sunday July 22 2012
More freaky map-bits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Bangladesh_enclaves - "There are 102 Indian enclaves inside Bangladesh and 71 Bangladeshi ones inside India, with a combined population between 50,000 to 100,000. Inside those enclaves are also 28 counter-enclaves and one counter-counter-enclave." (via H)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast - not nearly as complex, but it's a big chunk of Russia that's not attached to the rest of Russia. (I've been pretty close to it, too...)