The current President is Steen Schelde, a Danish border enthusiast who has travelled widely pursuing his interest in enclaves, border crossings and tripoints. The more recent group visits are highlighted in the links on this page.

Members

Member	Country	Biography
Barry Arnold	UK	Barry has been a member of IBRG since 2018 and has participated in 2 official expeditions and more informal IBRG visits too. His interest in land borders emerged as he travelled around Europe as teenager and studying Geography at school. He is the author of barrysborderpoints.com and has visited 21 tripoints to date. In addition to tripoint visits he is interested in all aspects of borders, geographical, social, cultural and legal. He has visited enclaves, divided villages and roads. Most recently he focused on tripoints in the Balkans bagging some rarely visited points He became the Vice President of the IBRG in 2023. He has spent his life in the Education sector, initially teaching in secondary education and being a Deputy Headteacher prior to becoming a Teacher Educator at the Institute of Education, UCL. Now retired he has more time for his family and border visits.
Frode Berg	NO	Frode has been a member of IBRG since 2008. He worked for the Norwegian border service for most of his professional career. Since 1990, he worked as a Border Inspector for Norway’s Border Commissioner for the Norwegian-Russian national border for 26 years. An exciting journey in close cooperation with the FSB border service in Russia. He was arrested in Moscow in December 2017 and charged with espionage for the benefit of Norway and NATO and sentenced to 14 years in prison in Russia. After two years in Leforto prison in Moscow, Frode was pardoned by President Putin, exchanged with a Russian FSB-officer, and sent home in November 2019. Today he enjoys life as a pensioner but still has national borders as his hobby. Both Jesper Nielson and Peter Hering visited the Norwegian-Russian border in the mid-2000s, it was that visit that encouraged Frode to join IBRG. His first expedition was in 2007 and he has been only many trips since. Frode is an expert on Russian border relations. He looks forward to participating in this forum more often in the future together with all other border experts. He was President of the IBRG between 2008-2012.
Dr Per Brodersen	DE	Per became an Associate Member in August 2024. Born and raised in Western Germany not far from the Iron Curtain along the River Elbe and with family ties to the German-Danish borderlands further north, he developed special interest in borders already in primary school days. Since then, administrative and juridical manifestations in space have become a key interest to him. Holding a PhD in Eastern European History, Per is professionally Berlin-based in the field of international relations and food security. In his spare time, tripoints and geographical anomalities catch his eye, including 14 tripoints in Europe’s Eastern half, GDR border stones in Saxony-Anhaltian raspberry bushes and a Special Economic Zone between Kazakhstan and China.      Other weaknesses include (but are not limited to) driving a Lada Niva and playing a jazz drum kit.
Bill Burke	UK	Bill became an Associate member of IBRG in April 2023. From an early age Bill developed an interest in Geography. His career as an accountant in local government specialising in European funding led him to working in the voluntary sector for a European funding charity where he visited Brussels and the surrounding area. He became interested initially in linguistic borders and then physical ones. His focus is on European borders and where borders transect towns and roads. As a graduate in Economics and History he was interested in border formation and how they relate to linguistic borders, for example Tende in France which up to 1947 was Italian. He is fascinated by Baarle and survived taking his non border enthusiast wife on an extended trip of the various enclaves! His other hobbies are Cricket, squash, running and cycling. He as an Englishman of course enjoys a good beer.
Randy Cepuch	USA	Randy became an Associate Member in January 2024. Randy learned geography as a kid by collecting stamps, and he has always been fascinated by countries that are here one day but gone (or splintered) the next. He grew up in upstate New York and often crossed the border into Canada. He began traveling more widely in his 30s and visited all 50 of the United States by age 50 (nabbing Montana with just weeks to go). He is a provisional member of the Travel Century Club, with visits to 85 countries so far. Among his interests are micronations, which, of course, tend to have imaginary borders that are rarely if ever officially recognized. His favourite quirky border spot is Point Roberts, Washington. In 2023, he reviewed James Crawford’s “The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World” for Washington Independent Review of Books, where he serves on the board.
Jannis Deeleman	NL	Jannis has been interested in borders since 2000.  He grew up near the NL-BE border. Jannis specialises in visiting hard-to-visit borders and hard-to-find border markers which requires diplomacy and perseverance in many ways. He feels most comfortable at the borders in Eastern Europe and off the beaten track. Owner and author of the website www.ontheborder.eu . Focussed on following a whole border and picturing all the border markers. His credo: “Most people follow roads and sometimes they are confronted with crossing a border.  I follow borders and sometimes I’m confronted with crossing a road”. Jannis studied geography and specialised in the development of the infrastructure near borders and in social development in border areas. He has worked in the international railway business for over 30 years. His first IBRG expedition was in 2018.
Piet van der Giessen	NL	Piet became an Associate member of IBRG in April 2023 and a full member in July 2023. Piet has always been interested in borders and border markers, a member of the Grenspalengroep Nederland he has focused on the markers on the BE/NL border, having visited, recorded and photographed 75% of them. His reports are available at Grenspalen One. Recently he began exploring border markers in Boston and on the US/Canada border. Piet is the managing director of a Dutch company that provides audio, light and vision solutions. He is also working on developing border mapping software. At home he enjoys cooking.
Peter Hering	AT/DK	Peter was one of the founder members of IBRG and its first President from 2003 -2008. Peter was born in 1944, in the closing years of WW 2. He grew up in Vienna, 60 km from the Austro-Hungarian border. In spite of being a mere child at the time of the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1956, Peter clearly remembers what a pronounced effect the “border” phenomenon had on him, watching news from the border…a man-made line which symbolized the difference between freedom and oppression, sometimes life and death… Some years later, while living in Graz, Peter travelled extensively by moped in the surrounding area, thus visiting his very first tripoint in a remote area, the place where Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) meet. Over the years, his interest in borders and tripoints has both grown as well as becoming more concentrated. To date, he is the proud holder of the world record in tripoints visited: 48, including historical ones. Some of the most interesting spots were the beautiful South American tripoint near the Iguacu Falls, where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet…and the world’s eastern-most tripoint, China-Russia-North Korea near Vladivostok AND, last but not least the crossing on the Zambezi river in Africa, between Botswana and Zambia, being very close to TWO tripoints (but not a Quadripoint) that are only 170 metres apart… Beside travelling (123 countries so far) and borders Peter is an opera – and football lover… Peter’s border pictures are here
Romain Hodapp	FR/LU	Romain became an associate member in February 2024. A member of the early Borderpoint discussion group and more recently the Facebook Borders group. He grew up near the FRLU border but now lives in Brittany, sadly far from the borders he visited when he was younger when his Father, a surveyor took him into the forest to hunt for FR/DE border markers south of Metz. He has visited many border points in west, north and central Europe including 9 current tripoints, 2 historical tripoints and the exclaves of Büsingen, Llivia and Baarle. He describes these border visits as magical. The borders of Luxembourg remain his favourite however. He is also passionate about maps and license plates but that’s another story. He has 2 websites: details here and here
Lars Hole	DK	Lars has been a member of IBRG since 2023. He is employed by the Danish authorities and works specifically in maintaining the 1920 border between Denmark and Germany involving surveying the border and maintaining the physical state of the border including its border markers. He is also a Geodetic advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when negotiating new borders, mainly at sea, and recently a brand new (2022) land border on the small Island between Canada and Greenland, Tartupaluk, Hans Ø, Hans Island.  His first IBRG expedition was MAEX-23
Mike Kaufman	USA	Mike has been a member of IBRG since 2002 and has actively participated in five official border expeditions with the group.  He became famous amongst group members for making sketches of border crossings, markers, and vistas in his scrapbook while in the field.  He is interested in the edges and intersections of history, geography, language, architecture, and culture that emerge in border regions, identifying how inhabitants address challenges and embrace opportunities.  He has had broad geopolitical interest his entire life: at the age of two, he could identify every nation in the world by its flag.  By four, he would officially announce internal borders each time the family car crossed from the state of Massachusetts (his home state) into neighbouring New Hampshire.  At nine, he visited his first divided street (Canusa Street between Canada and the United States) on a family trip.  With IBRG, Mike has visited 27 international tripoints, one bi-national quadripoint, enclaves, autonomous regions, and disputed territories.  He now lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and visits state, county, and municipal boundaries as often as possible, including the current and former markers of the District of Columbia.  Mike has dedicated his professional career to public service.
Dr. Ilan Kelman	UK	Ilan Kelman first became interested in borders after walking across his first international border in 1997 (UK-Ireland). He is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, UK where his research includes many components of border studies and transboundary governance. A key example is disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy is here which examines dealing with risks across borders. His border website is here and his tripoint website is here
Dr. Ann Kennard	UK	Ann Kennard was Principal Lecturer in German and European Studies, now Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.  Ann has published many articles and conference reports on international boundary issues.  Her most important and comprehensive was a book: ‘Old Cultures, new Institutions around the new Eastern border of the European Union’ (European Studies in Culture and Policy, 2010). Her interests lie mainly in Eastern Europe. Ann has been a member of IBRG since 2002 when she first joined the group to go from Vienna through Hungary to Ukraine, Romania, Croatia, and later further through the Balkans to Turkey and back through Albania, Croatia and Slovenia.  She has been on every trip with the main group since, including the Baltic States, Ukraine and parts of Western Europe.  She also made visits, with funding from the British Academy, to Poland, Ukraine and Kaliningrad in order to interview border officials in the research for the above-mentioned book.  IBRG has been fundamental to her academic research into cross-border cooperation. More recently she has concentrated more on the city partnership link Bristol-Hannover Council, of which she is Chair.
Bruno Lässer	AT	Bruno became an associate member of IBRG in April 2023. Bruno as an Austrian was used to borders, initially the peaceful ones around Lake Constance between Germany, Switzerland or Liechtenstein and later whilst studying in Vienna, the Iron Curtain borders between Hungary and Czechoslovakia. His career in Finance and Controlling, provided opportunities to travel widely further fuelling his passion in borders. In the 2000’s Bruno resumed his passion for photography. In 2016 he began to photograph the 9 Austrian Tripoints. This developed into photographing each border marker on the 2700 km border using professional Hasselblad medium format equipment, both digital and film. By early 2023, ca. 900 km have been done, including the entire border with the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Hungary will be completed soon, next is Slovenia. His biggest challenge still awaits the Austrian border with Italy and Germany with its alpine heights of between 2000m and 3000m. His photographs are at www.brunolaesser.at
Doug Murray	CAN	Doug was a founding member of IBRG and has participated in 6 large expeditions. He is a travel writer and content producer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Doug has been interested in international boundaries since he was a wee lad, His first crossing was CAUS (Manitoba-North Dakota). Since that time, he has been able to visit many of Europe’s tripoints, interesting spots in North America like Point Roberts and the Northwest Angle and, his favourite, Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau (BENL) twice! He has lived in Ghana, Ireland, Scotland, Mexico and Guatemala and have visited 53 countries… so far!
Jesper Nielsen	DK	Jesper got interested in borders during childhood trips to the Danish-German border. Later a trip to Cyprus made him even more curious. Meeting border enthusiast Peter Hering was the beginning of IBRG, and they explored the Danish-German border together before the first big expedition in 2001 . Jesper has participated in most IBRG expeditions, being one of the veterans and has independently done further trips to rarely visited tripoints in Africa. Jesper works for the University of Copenhagen.
Hans Peter Nissen	DK	Hans Peter has been a member of IBRG since 2001 and was one of the founder members of the group. He managed much of the logistics of these early trips. He has participated in more than 15 expeditions to the DK/DE border as well as many group visits including the Søsex 2011 to eastern Russia, China and North Korea and the latest 2024 trip to Cyprus. Hans Peter has always been interested in history and borders. He is particularly interested in the meaning that borders have for the people who live close to them, and in what happens when the borders are moved. His grandparents come from the border area between Germany and Denmark, and it shaped them all their lives. Luckily, they managed to tell him many stories from their youth. He is married to Linda, who luckily is also interested in both history and borders and is a also a member of IBRG, so they are together on almost all the expeditions. He is the CEO of Dansk Avis Omdeling (“Danish newspaper distribution”).
Linda Nissen	DK	Linda has been a member since 2006 and has participated in many border expeditions, the most recent to Cyprus in 2024. Her primary interest is the DE/DK border which stems from her focus on the plebiscite regarding the status of the Danish border and on the “Flensburg Question”. Linda is interested in Danish history 1299-1922, and when not visiting borders is a lawyer and director in Copenhagen. Having 4 children takes a lot of time too.
Dr Alexandra Novosseloff	FR	Dr Alexandra Novosseloff is a research associate at the Centre Thucydide of the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2).  Alexandra holds a PhD in political science from the University, and has been working on UN peacekeeping and Security Council- related issues with various international research institutes. She is the author of many books and articles on United Nations-related issues. Alexandra became an associate member of IBRG in February 2025 She has, in parallel to her academic work, developed an original geopolitical project that combines policy research, travel and photography. She has just published a book on the world’s enclaves (“Enclaves of the World: Travels through Geographic Oddities”) that is a sequel book of two previous books in her series ‘Geopolitics of Borderlands’, one on separation walls (“Des murs entre les hommes”), and another on border bridges (“Des ponts entre les hommes”).
Barış ÖZTÜRK	TR	Baris became an associate member of IBRG in April 2023. Barış is a Turkish citizen with Georgian descent. In his childhood his home town Artvin was a border city with Soviet Union, nowadays it borders Georgia. This border between NATO and the Soviet Union divided families for 50 years (1928-88), this made him very enthusiastic about border issues. As a Mechanical Engineer Baris has travelled to more than 20 countries and makes every opportunity to visit the local borders. He felt that the UK BORDER signage at Heathrow Airport was a peculiar experience. 😊. Although Turkey is a middle sized country, it has border lines with 8 different countries. However, Barış’s main interest is former Turkey-USSR border, today’s Turkey – Georgia, Armenia, Nakhchivan (AZ enclave) border line. The documentation of this border line is his future project, inspired by Eef Berns’s huge work “The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees”.
Eva Rosová	CZ	Eva became a full member of the group in 2023. Eva has been fascinated by travelling and borders for her whole life. She ‘blames’ that on her father, who kind of imprinted his geography and travel interests on her. She grew up in Czechia, born just two years before the communist regime fell, and until Czechia became part of the EU and Schengen, travelling across the borders was always an adventure. She can remember one trip with her parents along the border with Austria when she was about 4 years old. They were walking along this small stream and on the other side of the stream were people greeting them in German. She just could not understand why they spoke different languages and why they could cross the stream to walk to them. She is educated as a geographer (and works as one too 🙂 ), although halfway through her studies she decided that Czechia is too small and thus moved to an even smaller Denmark in 2012. Eva finished her education in Copenhagen and decided to stay. As a passionate geographer, she finds everything related to geography interesting. In November 2022 she visited Gibraltar, where right at the border she met Steen and Barry and was welcomed to this group. She joined the expedition to Märket Island and is looking forward to future planned trips.
Steen Schelde	DK	Steen has been a member since 2005. Has participated in several international IBRG tours. Steen grew up in the borderland between Danish and German, through which he got his interest in borders and especially the cultural differences a geographical man-made line has on the surrounding country. Main interest is in German historical geography from the Middle Ages to the present with German colonization in the Baltics, Balkans and Eastern Europe.
Peter Tagesen	DK	Peter is very interested in a border that no longer exists! Born in Nordslesvig, the Danish-German relationship was in the blood from birth (1965). An obsession began to find and write about all 128 border stones from the 1864-1920 border between Denmark and Prussia/Germany. In 2020 he took part in a trip to the then closed DE/DK border – an unreal experience. His first IBRG expedition was the DEDK21. In 2023, Peter came into possession of 2 discarded boundary stones, which he placed in front of his house. All members of IBRG have an open invitation to see the 2 boundary stones.”
Bogusław Tomaszewski	PL	Bogusław has been interested in borders since the 1980s. He is a consultant to the Border Guard Archive in Szczecin. He is also a supporter of the Main Committee of History and Tradition of the Association of Polish Surveyors. Bogusław has a special interest in the borders of Poland between 1920-1939. He is the author of many articles and the book “From Piaśnica to the Dniester. The course and marking of the borders of the Second Polish Republic”. He co-created border lapidaries, among others, at the Border Guard posts in Szczecin and Ustrzyki Górne, as well as at the Polish Arms Museum in Kołobrzeg. He was at all Polish tripoints and, several historical ones abroad.
Hugh Wallis	CAN	Hugh has always been fascinated by things geographical, in particular borders and related aspects such as tripoints, enclaves, exclaves and so on. For a number of years he was very fortunate to travel widely on business and so was able to visit many borders, and in particular tripoints. Most of these visits were solo but he did have one opportunity to join with other IBRG members when visiting the borders and tripoints around Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland and Russia (Kaliningrad). Now retied and domiciled in Canada his border visiting opportunities are much fewer but he is an avid follower of all border hunting reports from all sources. His border blog is here.
Dr Brendan Whyte	AUS	Brendan is an Associate Member of IBRG from its early days. Brendan is an historical geographer, and former Assistant Curator of Maps at the National Library of Australia.  He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on border conflicts, and historical boundary surveys and mapping, and also several books on enclaves: “Waiting for the esquimo: an historical and documentary study of the Cooch Behar enclaves of India and Bangladesh” (SAGES, 2004), “En territoire belge et à quarante centimètres de la frontière”: an historical and documentary study of the Belgian and Dutch enclaves of Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau” (SAGES, 2004), and an edited translation of Lt. Paul Goldschmidt’s WWI memoir of the Baarle-Hertog enclaves: “Listening to Ludendorff: a clandestine Belgian military wireless station behind German lines 1915-1919” (Reveille Press, 2013).

Members Gallery

Member Archive

Please click HERE to access a new section where we remember members who are no longer with us.

Expeditions

Date	Name	LINKS	Participants	Notes
2001	The Danish-German Border Expedition 2001	Report	PH, JN	This was the first IBRG expedition with a trip to points of interest (POI) on the DE/DK border. Many informal trips to this border followed.
6-16 September 2001	The Great Central European Border Expedition (GCEBE)	Video Photos	FC, PH, DM, JN, JP, RP, HtV	The very first border IBRG worldwide expedition which started and ended in Copenhagen. Its aim was to visit 11 central European tripoints in 10 days. A fast-paced trip with a special significance in being the first. The trip was carried out “clockwise”, visiting the Eastern tripoints first, starting with CZDEPL and ending at BEDENL near Aachen. It was exciting, dynamic and positive throughout. It acted as a template for future trips. Logistically there were no problems at the borders. There was quite a lot of public attention with the group being met with curiosity, the participants were also interviewed a couple of times by local newspapers. In those early days, pre the introduction of the Euro there were all those local currencies to cope with. World events caught up with the group and impacted on the 2 US participants from New York State as news of 9/11 reached them as they crossed the Liechtenstein/Swiss border.
1-8 July 2002	The Great Eastern European Border Expedition (GEEBE)	Photos	PH, MK, AK, DM, JN, RP, HtV	This trip involved crossing approximately 25 official borders, and covered 8 Eastern European tripoints as well as visiting border areas in Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary.
9-21 July 2003	The Great Baltic Border Expedition (GBBE).	Photos Report	PH, MK, AK, JSK, DM, JN, HPN, RP, HtV	Border areas of the Baltic countries of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Russia. After the main expedition had ended some of the participants also visited the Swedish and Norwegian boundary.
8-21 May 2005	The Great South Eastern European Border Expedition (GSEEBE)	BGGRTR Photos Itinerary Map	PH, MK, AK, DM, JN, HPN, RP, HtV	This trip focused on 14 countries, mainly in the Balkans
13-15 Sep 2007	The Great Ghana Border Expedition (GGBE).	Photos	DM, JN
May 2008	The Great Black Sea Border Expedition (GBSBE)	Photos Photos Programme	FB, PH, MK, AK, DM, JN, RP
28 April – 1 May 2011	The Small Kaliningrad Expedition (SKE).	Report	JSK, HPN	The aim was to attempt to visit 1) an existing border crossing, namely Sovetsk (RU) – Panmune (LT), 2) the Russian side of a former border crossing between Lithuania and Russia, and 3) a former German road which is now divided by the Russian-Polish border, also from the Russian side. The former Lithuanian-Russian border crossing was only for residents of the Russian town Vištytis, which in 2011 had only one Lithuanian resident in a house that had previously been an integral part of Lithuanian town Vištytis despite being on the Russian side of the border. Members were not allowed to visit the Polish-Russian border.
27 Aug-13 Sep 2011	The Great East Asia Expedition (Søsex 2011)		PH, JSK, HPN, RP	A trip focusing on the border areas between China, North Korea and Russia (CNKPRU), the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea, Beijing and Tibet
27-29 Apr 2012	The Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa Border Expedition (ENBE).		PH, JSK, JN, HPN, SS
19-21 Apr 2013	The Switzerland Expedition (CHEX13)	Programme	PH, JSK, AK, HPN RP
Aug 2016	The Andorra Expedition (ADEX16).		PH, JSK, JN, HPN, LN, RP	This expedition focused on the small country of Andorra, visiting the eastern tripoint with France and Spain, border towns and crossings as well as a pene -enclave and border POI’s.
27-29 April 2018	Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Germany and France (BELEX18)	BELEX18	BA, AK, JSK. HPN, JD	This expedition started and finished in Brussels. The route maximised the opportunities to visit both rural and coastal border crossings, tripoints and to view border markers both on historic and contemporary borders. Visiting towns and driving on roads divided by borders also featured as did a visit to the Vennbahn exclaves at Roetgen and Entenpfuhl. We also took the opportunity of visiting the most western point in Germany too.
3-7 September 2020	A three country border visit: Austria, Italy and Switzerland (AT20)	AT20	BA, PH, SS	This expedition started and finished in Munich. The route maximised the opportunities to visit Enclaves, secondary tripoints, border crossings (road and rail) and to view border markers, some relatively new and some old. The trip was a fast moving 5 day trip visiting 3 countries, an enclave, crossing many borders and undertaking day hikes to get to more remote border areas.
24-26 September 2021	A 2 country border visit, visiting POI’s on the historical and current borders between Denmark and Germany (DEDK21)	DEDK21	AK, BA, JSK, JN, UG, PT, SS, HPN, LN, SB	This expedition started and finished in Copenhagen, it was a fast moving trip that the explored the historical and current borders between Denmark and Germany visiting the eastern and westernmost points and several places in between. The trip took place when COVID restrictions were still in place and therefore interaction between group members and border officials occurred on each day.
July 2022	A tripoint bagging trip aiming to visit the previously unexplored Bulgarian tripoints.	BALKEX-22	BA JN	This expedition started in Sofia and visited the remote tripoints between Bulgaria and its neighbours: BGGRMK and BGMKRS. Border crossing points were also a focus.
1-7 November 2022	An enclave focused expedition focusing on the westernmost Spanish territories in North Africa and finishing in Gibraltar.	SPEGEX-22 Programme	BA, SS	This expedition started in Tangier, Morocco and finished in Gibraltar. Visiting the Spanish islands and enclaves of Isla Perejil, Ceuta, Peroñ de la Gomera, Isla de Tierra, Isla de Mar and Peñoón de Alhucemas. After taking the ferry from Tangier to Tarifa there was enough time for a 2 day exploration of the ES/GIB border and crossing points.
7-9 July 2023	A visit to the divided Märket island with the complex border between Finland and Sweden	MAEX-23 Programme	BA, JD, PG, LH, MK, JN, JNy, ER, SS	This expedition started in Stockholm where 9 IBRG members travelled to the beautiful Åland Islands, an autonomous area in Finland. Having chartered a boat the group explored the lighthouse and complex border on Market, noting its border markers and other points of interest.
30 September 2023- 02 October 2023	A multi country expedition, primarily focusing on the Italy – Slovenia border.	SITEX-23	BA, PH, SS	This expedition started in Venice and finished in Trieste. 28 POI’s including 2 tripoints – ATITSI and ITTSYU, the divided town of Gorizia/Nova Gorica and many border crossings from Austria/Italy to Slovenia/Croatia. A border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia was also explored. A busy 4 days.
2-9 March 2024	An expedition to Morocco focusing on its rarely visited borders with Spain and Algeria,	MOMEX-24 Programme	BA, PH, SS	A second visit to North Africa focusing on the remaining Spanish possessions of Melilla and the Chafarinas islands not visited on the 2022 trip. Travelling further east to the Morocco and Algeria border to view crossing points and the heavily fortified border which has been closed since 1994. Uncharted territory for the IBRG.
29 March 2024	A local Danish outing to the Danish – German border.	DEDKEX-24	BH, JN, LN, HPN, ER, SS	A day trip by the Danish contingent visiting well known border POI’s on the Danish – German border north of Flensburg.
14-19 June 2024	An expedition to the Artic visiting Norway, Finland and Sweden focusing on the Norway – Russia border	ARTEX-24 Programme	BA, FB, PG, MK, JN, JNy, SS	An ambitious expedition travelling to the far north of Norway focusing on the 2 Nordic Tripoints and visiting POI’s on the Norwegian – Russian border including closed and open border crossings, enclaves and border markers
31 July – 2 August 2024	A short expedition to the eastern Polish border.	EPTEX-24 Programme	BA, PG, JN, JNy, SS	An expedition to visit the wet BYPLUA tripoint and POI’s along the Belarus – Poland border with its new fortifications.
27 September – 2 October 2024	An expedition focusing on the UN buffer zone, exclaves and other POI’s in Cyprus	CYBEX-24 Programme	BA, PG, JN, LN, HPN, ER, SS	A fast moving expedition focusing initially on the buffer zone and border crossings in Nicosia. The group then travelled to both sides of the island bagging border crossings, exclaves and SBA border markers. The buffer zone was revisited in several places. Other highlights included visits to the north eastern most point and the highest point of Cyprus.
15 November – 6 December 2024	An expedition focusing on visiting the 3 Central American Tripoints	CATEX-24 Programme	BA, SS	An adventure packed 3 week trip to 5 counties, focussing initially on the visiting the 3 tripoints, but also in visiting border markers and crossings. Some of the POI’s had never been visited and were remote. There was enough time for Mayan ruins, volcano treks and some R&R. Perhaps the biggest adventure of them all.
21 August -31st August 2025	A 10 day trip focusing initially on the historic inner German border, before focusing on the borders and tripoints near Lake Constance. The final section looks at the CH/IT border	LIVCO-25 Programme	BA, PB, PG, BL, JN, LN, HPN, ER, SS	A fast moving trip that shifted its focus between historic and current borders, visiting 4 current tripoints and 2 historic ones. Some of the POI’s had not been visited by IBRG since 2001. Many BM’s crossing points were observed and recorded.
25 October – 4 November 2025	A 3 week trip focusing on visiting 4 tripoints, many of which had not been visited before by European border enthusiasts.	SATEX-25 Programme	BA, PG, LH, JHy, SS	One of the most ambitious IBRG expeditions, focusing on 4 tripoints, border crossings, an island exclave, very remote tripoints, divided cities and contested areas. The group chartered a light aircraft, boat, hired cars, used taxis, hiked and hitchhiked to reach their goals.

Facebook Group

Membership Criteria

The IBRG welcomes new members. Membership is by invitation, supported by 2 existing members. In order to join the group border enthusiasts can indicate their hobby in a number of ways:

• Visiting borders, tripoints, enclaves etc.
• Engagement with the Facebook Borders page through reports and photos
• Legacy membership of the old discussion forums e.g. Borderpoint.
• Being an owner of a border related website
• Writing academic articles or travelogue articles
• Having a professional job in a border related sphere e.g. border service, customs

There are 2 forms of membership Associate Membership for those who meet some of the criteria above and are approved by 2 existing members. Please either leave a comment below or make an enquiry via the Facebook group. Full Membership is for those who meet the above criteria plus have attended a IBRG expedition. There is no fee to join, as it very much a group that wants to bring together people who share an interest in borders and associated topics.

Presidents

Name	Country	Date
Peter Hering	Austria	2003 – 2008
Frode Berg	Norway	2008 – 2012
Jan S. Krogh	Norway	2012 – 2023
Steen Schelde	Denmark	2023- date

Vice Presidents

NAME	COUNTRY	Date
Barry Arnold	UK	2023 – date

IBRG Merchandise

As a member of IBRG you have an opportunity to purchase IBRG themed t shirts and hoodies. Additional items may be added if there is sufficient demand.

Post and Packing extra, depending on destination.

Other Border Groups