The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities

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In just a swimsuit and cap, her body temperature plummeted. By the time she got out, her fingers were grey and her hands looked like they belonged to a cadaver. In a later meeting with President Reagan, Gorbachev raised a glass to her and commented, “She proved by her courage how close to each other our peoples live.” Pheasant Island, France/Spain But Spain has its own tiny ‘Gibraltars’, just across the water on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast – and Morocco is not happy about it in the slightest. From a street that inspired Diagon Alley to waves engulfing a lighthouse: Stunning winning images in the 2023 Historic Photographer of the Year contest Tomb of Suleyman Shah which is a tiny Turkish enclave within Syria which was moved closer to Turkey when Lake Assad was created but still stayed in Syria

Bremen has a coastal exclave? Then Hamburg wants one too! Image reproduced by kind permission of HarperCollins This explicit rule makes recent discoveries even more mysterious. In 2019, construction workers uncovered a number of remains underneath a Byzantine Chapel. Anthropologist Laura Wynn-Antikas was brought into study them. Now, I shouldn't let that take too much away from the book; its technical after all and could be down to my incompetence or an issue with the app, but its hard not to be somewhat annoyed. So, to be fair, IMO some sections could have merited more details than they received and in a few instances there wasn't an accompanying map for a certain location. Pheasant Island which for half a year belongs to the Spanish city of Irun, and the remaining half, to its French twin-town, HendayeIt all comes out in the wash! People share their hilarious laundry fails - from a dryer on fire to a very tiny glove I definitely learned new stuff, from really obscure places to new information of less obscure places, and upon finishing the book (mostly read through it during my breaks at work) I will research my highlighted passages. It’s separated from Germany by Swiss territory that encircles it and which at its narrowest point is just 700 metres (2,300ft) wide. Me gustó mucho leer sobre uno de los pocos cuatrifinios (unión de cuatro territorios en un punto) de países en el mundo, en la cuádruple frontera entre Namibia, Zimbabue, Botswana y Zambia (aunque estos dos últimos dicen que sus fronteras están 200 metros río arriba y que en realidad hay dos trifinios) Campione d’Italia where Italian residents have to travel 15km through Switzerland to reach the nearest available Italian territory

I'm something of a map nerd, I could spend hours just poring over maps of various kinds, so this was right up my alley. They are essentially leftovers from Spain’s war with Muslim forces in the 15th and 16th centuries, when Spanish generals took strategic pieces of land as their enemies retreated into Africa, partly for monitoring purposes. In a region fought over so bitterly, Siga Island presents a remarkable exception: it is claimed by neither Croatia nor Serbia. Image reproduced by kind permission of HarperCollins

Canadian Stanstead and American Beebe Plain where the boundary line runs along the centre of the main street, so that the houses on one side of the street are in Canada and on the other in the United States