CQ WW Country Oddities

[ve2zp at BBS.VE3JF.AMPR.ORG]

Eastern Thrace (TA1) may not be the only hitherto hidden CQ WW country.  I
recall several years ago that Lampedusa Island (IH9) in Zone 33 or 34 was
activated by an Italian Multi-op group and was good for a multiplier.  The
rationale, as near as I can figure it, was obscure, but ran as follows:
Both DXCC and WAE countries count as multipliers in the CQ WW.
Lampedusa is a part of Italy, but as it lies in Africa, it cannot count for
WAE.
Therefore Lampedusa is distinct from the WAE country known as Italy.
It seems a bit tenuous, but this has never stopped a lot of countries from
being added to the DXCC list.  
Can anyone confirm if CQ will still consider Lampedusa as a separate multiplier
from Italy?
Are there any other odd bits of geography that we have been overlooking?
Dave VE2ZP/VE9CB
ve2zp at BBS.VE3JF.AMPR.ORG

>From Jim Reisert AD1C  28-Apr-1994 2318 <reisert at wrksys.enet.dec.com>  Fri Apr 29 04:17:02 1994
From: Jim Reisert AD1C  28-Apr-1994 2318 <reisert at wrksys.enet.dec.com> (Jim Reisert AD1C 28-Apr-1994 2318)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 23:17:02 EDT
Subject: CQ WW Country Oddities
Message-ID: <9404290317.AA01383 at us4rmc.pko.dec.com>

Lampedusa I.  does count as a separate multiplier in CQWW.  It counts as
Sicily, IT9, which is on the WAEDC but not DXCC list.

73 - Jim AD1C