Island of Asgard

Baffin Island belonging to Canada has land forms named after characters of Norse mythology

Mount Odin
Mount Thor
Mount Asgard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffin_Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Odin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Asgard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Thor

Almost One Island and The Narrowest Strait

Novaya Zemlya is "almost" a single island. Its separated into two islands Severny Island and Yuzhny Island by Matochkin Strait, which at its narrowest point is just 600 metres wide




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matochkin_Strait
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya_Zemlya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severny_Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzhny_Island

World's Largest Sandbox!

Libya and Chad fought over a box of sand - The Aouzou Strip



This has been described as the world's largest sandbox

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/the-worlds-largest-sandbox/?_r=0&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Opinion&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=Blogs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aouzou_Strip

Gandhi Islands!

The indigenous people of Chatham Islands, Moriori, practiced non violence ala Gandhi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori

Spanish Masala!

Spain has multiple possessions in Morocco.




Many of the are very interesting!

War for a 15 hectare rock : Perejil Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perejil_Island

Shortest land border segment of less than 100 meters : Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_V%C3%A9lez_de_la_Gomera

The major possessions are Cueta and Melilla . The others possessions are listed at the following page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plazas_de_soberan%C3%ADa



References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mapa_del_sur_de_Espa%C3%B1a_neutral.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla

Binary Island

The native people of Mangareva, a Pacific island, a binary number system from 15th century

Borrowing from Wiki

The Mangarevan people had developed a binary number system 300 years ahead of Europeans.[4] The discovery of the binary system being used as far back as 1450 CE is particularly surprising, given its location.

This old way of common numbering has been all but lost. Because the islands were controlled by the French for such a long period, the Arabic number system with which the West is most familiar has taken its place. Researchers Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller discovered that mathematicians on the island combined the two number systems into a novel binary system.[clarification needed] This allowed them to cut down on the number of digits involved in traditional binary systems. For example, 130 is represented in binary as 10000010. In the Mangarevan system, it is represented by VTK. V (varu) stands for 80, T (tataua) is 40, and K (takau) is 10.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangareva

Island of Languages!

Vanuatu located in South Pacific is a nation having 80 plus islands and 100 plus languages.
In terms of population, it is 113 languages per 2,50,000 people, approximately 2000 people per language.
Wonder if Tower of Babel was built here!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu

Offshore Capital!

Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea is off the coast of mainland ( If you can call it like that!)



There are plans to move the capital to Rio Muni in mainland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Equatorial_Guinea_Map.png
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Muni

Enclave with dual personality!

Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German enclave inside Switzerland. It is still a part of Germany because Switzerland couldn't decide on what to exchange instead of this enclave.
Even thought it is a German enclave, for all practical purposes it is a part of Switzerland.

The most interesting bit being that it postal and phone communications to this enclave. Following is an excerpt from Wiki

Post and telecommunications

There is a German post office in Büsingen; Büsingen has two postal codes, one Swiss and one German. To send a letter to Büsingen, one may address it to:

8238 Büsingen am Hochrhein

Schweiz

or:

78266 Büsingen am Hochrhein

Deutschland

Letters from Büsingen may be franked with a Swiss or a German stamp. A standard letter from Büsingen to Switzerland needs either a Swiss stamp worth 85 Rappen or a German one worth 62 euro cents (approximately 74 Rappen). Outside of the post office, there are Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom phone booths.

Similarly, residents of Büsingen can be reached by telephone using either a German number (with the prefix +49 7734) or a Swiss one (with the prefix +41 52).

Isn't it just amazing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein

Banaba Island - Part of Kiribati, Administered from Fiji!

Banaba Island is an interesting political anomaly. It is part of Kiribati but administered from Rabi Island of Fiji

Copying from wiki:

Banaba Island is a political anomaly. Despite being part of Kiribati, its municipal administration is by the Rabi Council of Leaders and Elders, which is based on Rabi Island, in Fiji.

On 19 December 2005, Teitirake Corrie, the Rabi Island Council's representative to the Parliament of Kiribati, said that the Rabi Council was considering giving the right to remine Banaba Island to the government of Fiji. This followed the disappointment of the Rabi Islanders at the refusal of the Kiribati Parliament to grant a portion of the A$614 million trust fund from phosphate proceeds to elderly Rabi islanders. Corrie asserted that Banaba is the property of their descendants who live on Rabi, not of the Kiribati government, asserting that, "The trust fund also belongs to us even though we do not live in Kiribati". He condemned the Kiribati government's policy of not paying the islanders.

On 23 December, Reteta Rimon, Kiribati's High Commissioner to Fiji, clarified that Rabi Islanders were, in fact, entitled to Kiribati government benefits - but only if they returned to Kiribati. She called for negotiations between the Rabi Council of Leaders and the Kiribati government.

On 1 January 2006, Corrie called for Banaba to secede from Kiribati and join Fiji. Kiribati was using Banaban phosphate money for its own enrichment, he said; of the five thousand Banabans in Fiji, there were fewer than one hundred aged seventy or more who would be claiming pensions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banaba_Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabi_Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabi_Council_of_Leaders