How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]

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Originally Posted by Storm

since I don't listen to the beeb daily, I will have to guess wildly - do you mean the country became a republic and then went back to being..say a monarchy?

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Actually yes.

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Originally Posted by Storm

like Australia almost did?

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Also like Australia, this place held a referendum. It declared itself as a republic but this was annulled.

Berwick? The UK used to be (for a short time) Certain statutes pertaining to England and Scotland were worded as "England, Scotland and Berwick-upon-Tweed.. Berwick only signed a peace treaty with Russia to end the Crimean War a few years ago (mid 90's I think)

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Originally Posted by anfield5

Berwick? The UK used to be (for a short time) Certain statutes pertaining to England and Scotland were worded as "England, Scotland and Berwick-upon-Tweed.. Berwick only signed a peace treaty with Russia to end the Crimean War a few years ago (mid 90's I think)

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Berwick has changed hands more than a two quid coin but it was never a republic in its own right; nor is it mentioned on BBC Radio every single night.

Worth a guess though :)

Being 12000 miles away from Aunty B. Do you mean BBCTV, BBC RADIO, BBC World News or any/all of the above?

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Originally Posted by anfield5

Being 12000 miles away from Aunty B. Do you mean BBCTV, BBC RADIO, BBC World News or any/all of the above?

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Also being in the remnants of empire "Where the whales and sharks are having their larks, ten thousand miles away" I can tell you that it's both on BBC Radio 4 domestically and the BBC World Service.
I hear it just before morning tea, out here in ol' Sydney town.

I know there was in Independent Republic of Crimea for a few months before the USSR split and Cimea reverted to the Ukaraine, but I doubt that would be heard daily on Aunty B.

Same for the Faeroe Islands who separated from Denmark for a brief time. Although Faeroes might be mentioned in a shipping forcast?

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Originally Posted by anfield5

Same for the Faeroe Islands who separated from Denmark for a brief time. Although Faeroes might be mentioned in a shipping forcast?

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The Faeroes is the answer; it is mentioned in the Shipping Forecast, every night.

On 14th Sep 1946, an independence referendum was held in the Faroe Islands and got a 50.73% "Yes" vote.
On 18th Sep 1946, the Faroe Islands declared their independence as a republic.
On 20th Sep 1946, Denmark declared that the declaration was invalid.
On 24th Sep 1946. King Christian X dissolved the Thing.

Took me time to realise you were not looking for part of the British Isles :)

and still the Faroe Islands play as a separate team and get hammered....