The Geographical Society
of New South Wales presents
Dr Stephen Codrington is Head of The Awty International School in
Houston, Texas, the second largest international school in the USA. He is also a
former President and councillor of the Geographical Society of NSW. He has
served as Deputy Chief Examiner in International Baccalaureate Geography, a
role in which he was responsible for setting and marking examinations done
by Geography students in over 100 countries.
He is the author of the popular textbook for IB Diploma Geography, ‘Planet
Geography’, now in its 6th edition and being used in 92 countries. This is the most recent of some 30
educationally oriented books he has written.
Stephen has also led study tours for students and/or teachers to a wide range of countries, supplementing
his own research studies that have taken him to some 108 countries. He maintains a website with a weekly
blog and travel diaries at www.stephencodrington.com
Stephen’s earlier talks to the Traveller’s Club have looked at Eastern Europe in 1989, Irian Jaya in 1990, the
former Soviet Union in 1992, Bolivia in 1994, Burma in 1996, Mali in 2005, North Korea in 2006, Iceland in
2007, China’s Ancient Tea Horse Route in 2008, Ethiopia in 2009, The Guardians of the Red Sea (Yemen,
Eritrea and Djibouti) in 2010, and Middle East Hotspots (Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria)
in 2011. Like all Stephen’s talks, this address on the last remnants of the Iron Curtain will
present richly illustrated and fascinating insights.
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Transnistria and
North Korea’s
border regions
Sunday 22 July 2012
Saint Ignatius College
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The Last Threads of
the Iron Curtain
Transnistria and North Korea’s
border regions
On 5th March, 1946, the British Prime
Minister, Winston Churchill, referred to
the separation of the capitalist and
communist worlds by declaring that “an
iron curtain has descended”. Today,
over half a century later, just two
remnants of unreformed communism
remain in the world, these being North
Korea and the small separatist region of
Transnistria. Their borders represent the
last remaining threads of Churchill’s
‘Iron Curtain’.
This richly illustrated lecture
w i l l e x p l o re t h e s e t w o
seldom visited nations.
The section on
Transnistria will focus
on the capital city,
Tiraspol, showing life in
this small enclave that
has
declared
independence from
neighboring Moldova
and Ukraine to pursue
its pure Soviet model of
government.
The section on North
Korea will focus on
both sides of its two
border regions (with
China and South
Korea).
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22nd July 2012
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