- 15th World Scout Jamboree (cancelled)
The 15th World Scout Jamboree was scheduled to be held in July
1979 and was to be hosted byIran atNeyshâbûr , but was cancelled due to political instability.The 15th World Jamboree was to be held at the 10 square kilometre
Omar Khayyám Scout Park, near the Afghan and Turkmen borders. The Second Asia-Pacific Jamboree was held at the site in preparation, in the summer of 1977. However, the destabilizing events of theIslamic Revolution caused the 15th World Jamboree to be cancelled near the end of 1978. Instead, theWorld Organization of the Scout Movement announced the "World Jamboree Year" by holding several international World Jamboree Year camps inAustralia ,Canada ,Sweden ,Switzerland and theUnited States that took up the momentum. However, a number of commemorative items had already been made for the event, the demand for which and the value of which was greatly inflated by the Jamboree's cancellation. The few items of memorabilia in existence are of huge value to collectors when they, albeit rarely, come on the market.The next Jamboree, hosted by Canada in
1983 , was named "The Spirit Lives On" to show how Scouting's spirit of international brotherhood could overcome the setback of cancelling the 1979 Jamboree.ee also
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Iranian Scouting Organization
*15th World Scout Jamboree External links
* [http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/history/inter/jambo.htm#1920 Jamboree Histories at ScoutBase]
* [http://www.scout.org/en/information_events/events/world_events/world_jamboree/jamborees_history Jamboree Histories at Scout.org]
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