The Island That Changes Country Every 6 Months

Twice a year, Pheasant Island changes hands between Spain and France, and nobody is allowed to live on it. Why does this tiny island in the Bidasoa river exist, and what do the world's strangest shared borders reveal about how borders are really made? From the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees and the 1660 royal wedding (with Velázquez), to Llívia (a Spanish town inside France), Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau, the Moselle and Lake Constance, and Bir Tawil, the desert no country claims. Chapters: 0:00 1. The Island Nobody Can Visit 2:52 2. A Neutral Place for Enemies 5:25 3. The Day Two Courts Met 8:33 4. The Deal Nobody Reopened 10:40 5. Stranded by a Word 14:25 6. Rivers, a Lake and a Desert 18:08 7. What the Quirks Reveal Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasan... ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8El... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_T... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_V... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ll%C3%A... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condomi...) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Co... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil ; https://luxembourg.public.lu/en/socie... ; https://www.ici.fr/infos/insolite/une... #mapsodic #borders #geography #history #pheasantisland