The US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense

There is a great youtube video on this and similar can-US border irregularities. Search for "Canada-US no touching zone". There is another exclave near vancouver. ▶ this video

in “Northwestern Point of the Lake of the Woods” · View on HN

There's a great CGP Grey video on the Canada-US border well worth watching if this interests you: ▶ this video

in “A little-known US-Canada border dispute” · View on HN

There's an entertaining CGP Grey video about other oddities in the US-Canada border. ▶ this video Considering how inconvenient it is in some geographies and how small the patches of land are, I'm always surprised the State Department doesn't negotiate a land exchange treaty with Canada to fix what are essentially cartography bugs. Both sides would spend a few tens of millions compensating people for land seizures and dealing with the administrative overhead of negotiating and ratifying the deal but would gain it back over time with simplified border stations.

in “Canada's Toughest Border Crossing” · View on HN

▶ this video The border is defined as a straight line, but was surveyed as a series of slightly wobbly series of lines. They put up thousands of stone pillars, cut out a strip of trees along the border, and it became official. IIRC there's also some stuff about a disputed island

in “The rectangularness of countries” · View on HN

There was much silliness with the boarder. They actually drew some of it using blank maps. ▶ this video (And that map missed a huge part of the can-us boarder, focusing only on the southern one.)

in “Canadians don’t live as far north as you think” · View on HN