Two years ago I had great pleasure in documenting the licence plates I saw on St. Pierre. I am an alphanumeric kind of person who is drawn to political geography and its manifestations in objects such as postage stamps, signs and of course licence plates. No wonder I love Scrabble so much when I can play with a bag of one hundred tiles, each one adorned with both a letter and a point value on it. When I travel I like to snap licence plate photos, having taken numerous photos of the plates I saw on the Falkland Islands earlier this year, and in the past I have contributed photos of the rarely-see plates of Tristan da Cunha and North Korea to a plate-lover’s website.
Thus when I visited Miquelon for the first time I wondered if their plates would be any different from those I saw on St. Pierre. The SPM alphanumeric sequencing was the same, but the small text underneath was particular to the island. I saw plenty of plates on St. Pierre that said “Saint Pierre et Miquelon” or “Saint Pierre & Miquelon” yet on Miquelon I found these kinds:
MIQUELON-LANGLADE underneath, all in capitals
Miquelon – Langlade underneath, in capitals and lowercase
Just MIQUELON underneath, all in capitals
Just Miquelon underneath, in capitals and lowercase
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Cool.
Not sure if you noticed this too, but there was a specific type of car common on SPM – the Suzuki Jimny. Honestly, I’ve heard that its a car that can’t even get up to the speed you require to go on the highway around where we stay…but because there aren’t really any “highways” on SPM, it makes sense for it to work well there (small car and apparently good for off-roading).