Damn you ruined it! If GW or DHS finds out about this they will make the owners of that pretty little house put up a giant 10,000 volt electric fence and pay for a team of border guards.

Ay caramba! Even the little Mexicans with the shortest legs could jump that bridge!
(Said in jest, I love Mexico and Mexicans!)

The side with the large crucifix must be the american side.

Do they need their passport to go to their own backyard. And do they have to declare anything on the way over?

Stumble! - Please stop spreading misinformation.

“There is a pair of islands near Rockport called Zavikon. A popular tale among local guides is that the bigger part of Zavikon is in Canada, while the smaller part is in the USA, and the foot bridge between them is the “shortest international bridge in the world”. In fact Zavikon is in Canada.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Islands

So cool! wish to have a travel

Is that a flagpole on the right-hand side? I’m presuming the Stars and Stripes will be flown from it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Islands#Curiosities — Both islands are in Canada.

Damn! That’s a mighty fine bridge. I’ll bet your mama’s undies I’m paying for yet another f**ing Amurican boondoggle (like the “war” in Iraq).

Is a passport required?

Honestly now, the smaller island should have an outhouse built on it. Just for the same of making a statement. An outhouse with “I love Jebus” bumper stickers.

I really find this hard to believe.

Canada is greater than the United States (in size(in this picture))!!!

don’t be such a PC bitch, garydenness. “I love mexicans!!!!”–shut up liberal. what, have you met all mexicans? know what i don’t love? listening to fucking illegals speak spanish on the bus. SPEAK ENGLISH OR GET OUT.

not sure if you can trust google maps, but it looks like the whole thing is inside canada.
http://tinyurl.com/3dtmzp not sure what the real story is??

Sorry dude, Google Maps also thinks both maps are in Canada:

http://tinyurl.com/3ykrvs

“there are many many sources that believe this bridge to be the shortest international bridge and i’d take their word over wikipedia’s any day.”

You (anyone) can correct wikipedia. You can submit a request that a claim be substantiated. Can you correct those other sites?

People believe (and some web sites perpetuate) myths simply because they are interesting.

Here it is on google maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.369568,-75.913703&spn=0.003344,0.008454&t=h&z=18

(in Canada)

“there are many many sources that believe this bridge to be the shortest international bridge and i’d take their word over wikipedia’s any day.”

Sorry, but you’re wrong here. The “Shortest International Bridge” is a myth propogated by the local tourist guides and boat operators in the Thousand Islands area. Both islands are located in Canadian waters. The flags seen along the bridge are merely symbols of the friendship that exists between these two nations. The main island is named Zavicon, I forget the other’s. They are located about 100 meters north of the border line.

Your “many many sources” are random pic/blog/bookmarking sites, and actually less reliable than Wikipedia. Don’t trust me? See for yourself:

http://www.geonames.org/6185890/zavikon-island.html

http://maps.google.com/maps?geocode=&q=N+44%C2%B0+22‘+8”+W+75%C2%B0+54′+49”

I’ve seen this in person. It’s up in the 1,000 Islands region of New York.

Trust me, it IS the smallest bridge. Not only do the tourists say so, but so do all of the charters and tour boat companies, and I’m pretty sure you’re not allow to throw out falsities when giving tours.

RonaldMcDonald,
Such a sad, angry clown you are. What does that have to
do with the bridge?

Fact is, Mexicans make America better. Get used to it.
Don’t like hearing a language you don’t understand
on the bus? By Teach Yourself Spanish. I’ve heard
Americans in other countries speaking English to
each other. I’ve been guilty of that myself.

All done correcting the troll. Back to the topic:

That is a cute little bridge.

Re: Ronald Mcdonald “don’t be such a PC bitch, garydenness. “I love mexicans!!!!”–shut up liberal. what, have you met all mexicans? know what i don’t love? listening to fucking illegals speak spanish on the bus. SPEAK ENGLISH OR GET OUT.”

It’s not their fault bud. Our WONDERFUL (see sarcasm) goverment doesn’t have any law stating immigrants must speak English, we’re also obviously not doing a good enough job blocking the borders. Did you know we basically let them live here? An illegal immigrant just has to have a child here and BLAMO! legal citizen. Legal immigrants, including those who come here and pop out little lawn mowing babies, live tax free for seven years.

Educate yourself before you open your backwoods trash talking mouth. It’s people like you who are the decline of this once great nation. Prejudice and fearmonger a great nation do not make.

As people above me have stated, sorry to tell you but it’s actually completely in Canada. Your “many, many sources” suck.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.369568,-75.913703&spn=0.003344,0.008454&t=h&z=18

To: Kids,

That’s probably one of the more naive things i’ve heard today. People lie all the time on tours to increase revenue, interest and all that.

I don’t know what the laws say, but please, when was the last time you told the complete truth just because the law said you probably should.

Life is fun in a bubble, i admit, 20 years ago i was in your shoes.

Christ you wiki-lovers are retarded.

Yes Wiki is a great source for everything, and plus they’re sourcing everything now which is great. It makes everything reliable and what-not. Thats all fine and dandy.

But who really gives a shit? I’ve been on a Boat tour that led me right past this place. The guy says it almost as if its a joke. Thats all this is. Clearly it would be incredibly hard to determine if such a tiny island was actually in the states or in canada. Screw your maps, they’re never 100% accurate, after all they’re MAN MADE!

This is supposed to be a cute and fun urban legend. Notice how the author says “Allegedly?”

And then you guys come in here with your doubts and your Wiki links clutched closely to your side.

Fuck.

Enough, I’m done.

Hey Ronald McDonald!
If you don’t like hearing people speak spanish on the bus then get a better job and buy a car you tit!

Rocksteady: “Screw your maps, they’re never 100% accurate, after all they’re MAN MADE!”

After all the borders are man made as well.

Most myth has a basis in fact. With that in mind, it seems reasonable that the border shifted sometime in the past, or that a misinformed tour guide assumed the flags on the bridge meant that it crossed an international border. Can anyone in the Thousand Island area go to the courthouse get some surveys and settle this?

thas actually a nice photo. i’ve been there, thats part of the 1000 islands on the st Lawrence river, correct?

BLASPHEMY!
I am a believer of the great Oracle WIKIPEDIA. EVERYTHING in wiki is true, EVERYTHING!
Case in point: this picture is from wikipedia. notice their EXPERTISE in such a complicated subject.

Robbie Canino (neighbor) showed me a playboy his dad has and placed side by side to this picture they are RIGHT ON! if wiki knows girls, wiki knows everything.

Hey Ronald,

A lot of Mexican illegals can afford cars…what are you doing on a bus? What went wrong with your life? Lol! Perhaps you should move south of the border, but that’d be an unfair swap from Mexico’s PoV…

It’s about time, the owner should hold a party on the bridge..since it’s international waters..and they’re on the border (no-man’s land) all laws would be off right?

orange: “The side with the large crucifix must be the american side.”

You dolt… that’s a mast.

Flag pole of single mast variety or sailboat mast?

Upon first seeing the photograph I thought that it was a pretty anti-social place to be living. Then I read through all of the comments you’ve received and I came to the conclusion that whoever lives there is on to the right idea!

There are too many idiots in the world. Too many people who want to stomp all over a ‘nice little story’ with their ‘hard facts’. Too many people who can’t wait to burst other people’s bubbles.

Anyways. If you nod your head and agree with them, then I’m pretty sure they’ll leave alone. Leave knowing that they’ve helped to better the world. Once again.

Russ, I agree with you wholeheartedly. You just spoke my mind.

Nice! We used to take our bayliner and fish not too far off these islands for the many years we kept the boat up at Alexandria Bay. I was just a kid then, but this is something I have not forgotten. That whole region is quite fascinating with it’s various castles (and their histories). If you’re a fisherman, you should know that the pike hit like crazy off these islands. Just drop anchor and you’ll have dinner in no time.

Thanks again.

Its in canada.. I live there so I should know.. Somepeople think cucumbers taste better pickled.. Stupid folks will fight over anything just to make an invalid point.

“Re: Ronald Mcdonald “don’t be such a PC bitch, garydenness. “I love mexicans!!!!”–shut up liberal. what, have you met all mexicans? know what i don’t love? listening to fucking illegals speak spanish on the bus. SPEAK ENGLISH OR GET OUT.”

It’s not their fault bud. Our WONDERFUL (see sarcasm) goverment doesn’t have any law stating immigrants must speak English, we’re also obviously not doing a good enough job blocking the borders. Did you know we basically let them live here? An illegal immigrant just has to have a child here and BLAMO! legal citizen. Legal immigrants, including those who come here and pop out little lawn mowing babies, live tax free for seven years.

Educate yourself before you open your backwoods trash talking mouth. It’s people like you who are the decline of this once great nation. Prejudice and fearmonger a great nation do not make.”

-hear, hear-

“so i may be wrong. depends on where you look.”

Anyone can make a mistake, but why did you come down so hard on wikipedia, and why would you sooner take the word of other sites that are not open to correction as wikipedia is? You really ought to look into wikipedia more to see how it works.

Regardless of whether the claim of being the shortest international bridge is true or not, (I could care less) it’s a pretty cool picture. I think that would be wicked cool to have your own separate island backyard. Somewhat hazardous if you’re drinking in the backyard and want to stumble back to the house however. Argue all you want, it’s cool either way.

I have a car, but there is nowhere to park it downtown where I work. So, I take the bus.

Just as an FYI, here is the US Coast Guard topographical map of the area, which is identical to the google maps version.

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.36935&lon=-75.91398&s=25&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG25

I’ve been there recently. They fly both American and Canadian flags.

That’s such a cool house. Love the trees and that little island next to it…

Looks like heaven.

This is a postcard dating 1966 illustrating these islands. They are flying the flags of both countries.

http://www.tias.com/6692/PictPage/1921393474.html

And this is the quote from the ‘tourist’ web site. Sounds like they know what they are talking about rather then it being some urban myth.

The boundary agreement in 1793 between
the U.S. and Canadian Governments decided
that no Island would be split in two, the
boundary line would run a 100 yards from
any shore line, if this was not made possible,
the line would run right down the middle
of Islands, and there would be problems
on which Government would collect the taxes.
This explains why the boundary between the
U.S. and Canada follows a zigzag line.
Two thirds of the Islands are in Canadian
territory but the total acreage of the Canadian
and American Islands is closely equal.

Better yet, the New York Times third paragraph down:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=950DE5D61131F934A1575BC0A96F948260

Daymo: “The boundary agreement in 1793 between the U.S. and Canadian Governments decided that no Island would be split in two, the boundary line would run a 100 yards from any shore line …”

There you have it then. Look on google maps. Whether you agree or not where the Canada-US border is, the scale is correct, and the distance between the islands is just under 100 feet. By the above, the boundary line can not run between them.

Sheesh … you quote it, but it’s as if you didn’t read it.

As for the different flags flying on the two islands, I can hoist a French flag on Staten Island - that doesn’t make it France. Again, it’s a gimmick for the tourists.

“wikipedia’s still full of shit though.”

Why not write a piece about why you believe that to be so? They got this right, you didn’t, but they’re the ones that are full of shit. Right.

I like turtles

I like how this post has become a prime example of Wikipedia’s reliability despite frequent and usually undue suspicion.

Yeah, I hate it when people come in and brake out the “facts” on us. What do they think we are? Atheists?

All the angry people on here need to go take happy pills. It’s a cute bridge, a cute house, and a cute story. That’s good enough for me. Take all your hate elsewhere.

I live in upstate New York, and I’ve been on this river plenty of times. There’s a bus tour, and they always point out that bridge. Never thought I’d see it on Digg!

who gives a shit how true this is? its a fun picture.

I saw this in person. The tour guide told us that the owner of the house used to joke that when he got into an argument with his wife, he’d leave the country for a while. :p

@Tomis: “… a cute story. That’s good enough for me. Take all your hate elsewhere.”

I agree completely. Why get all pissy at Wikipedia for pointing that out … that it’s just a cute story?

Cheers,

It seems to be this one:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=zavikon+islands&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.972233,81.5625&ie=UTF8&ll=44.369419,-75.913543&spn=0.002661,0.004978&t=h&z=18&om=1

However, the borderline on Gmaps does not go between them…

What’s so hard about understanding we like our “cute storys” to be true?

Holy hell, I hate the internet…

What’s with the emo updates? Oh wait this is the internet.

Just like all of the Mexicans who, despite being born here are STILL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS I think its high time America kick ALL the non-caucasians out! WE WERE HERE FIRST! PRIME TIME FOR A WHITE AMERICA!

hogy is kell ideírni az, hogy SZERETLEK MANYIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i don’t know about the bridge, but i kinda agree that wikipedia is not a reliable source.
because everybody can edit wikipedia, even the @|*&!#~ one who loved to post their point of view, and hate anybody else who share different words.
and if you happened to try to fix that, those people always delete your words by some ‘outrageous’ reasons like “i check his IP address, this guy isn’t living in any english-speaking country bla bla bla” etc…
so, as for me, i won’t make wikipedia as my primary source anymore.

anyway, it’s really nice bridge.
i wonder if the house is tsunami-proof?
:-/

I have no idea whether the border runs between these two islands or not, but I should point out that the actual, for sure international bridge between the U.S. and Canada in the 1000 Islands, at the end of I-81, is not much longer, if any, than this bridge here. The two major spans of the 1000 Islands Bridge on the U.S. and Canadian sides are amazingly large and impressive, but they each connect to smaller islands on their far sides, each havint its nation’s respective customs and immigration facilities, and these two islands are separated from one another, across the int’l boundary, by basically a culvert. Weird but true.

“zsömi on Sep 11th, 2007 said:
hogy is kell ideírni az, hogy SZERETLEK MANYIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

ugy, hogy “I LUV U MANYIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

…the bridge is cool, anyway

oh, by the way (still 4 Alex Geno & similar nerds),
Spencer Wells about humans: “I would say that they entered [America] within the last 15,000 years”
…so, actually red people r immigrants in america, too.
& actually we r guests on the planet & will not b here 4 long if we’ll talk about this kind of bs instead of our impact on the nature & how 2 stop polluting it.

aha, cool bridge!
lol

Ronald MacDonald, eres un idiota de mierda. Find a translator bastard

By the way, the bridge is fine

ronald macdonald,
u think whites were first in america?
go back in time 500 years and u won’t c any whites.

and if u have some issues with that, go find some medical help. but i warn u, they’ve got some good treatments 4 anger management but they can’t help u 2 b more intelligent.
it’s your job 2 work on that.

Actually, 500 years ago is 1507. There were, in fact, Europeans in the Americas by then. Once upon a time, schools used to teach students that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Maybe they don’t do that any more. Or maybe they’ve stopped teaching math. In either case, cheers. Thanks for making our world a little dumber.

the shortest international bridge has got to be between the uk and the irish republic its situated about half milefrom black hut in killea co donegal and measures just under 2 metres