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3 unusual facts about Rover Scout


Rover Scout

Today, the Rover section remains an important part of Scouting in many European countries, in most member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (e.g. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong), across Central and South America, the Middle East and in many other countries such as Ireland, Japan, Republic of China/Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Korea.

By 1931, Rovering had established itself internationally to the extent that it saw the organization of the first World Rover Moot in 1931 at Kandersteg, Switzerland.

The most recently created group is Takamatsu 15, attached to Takamatsu University on Shikoku.


Vanuatu branch of The Scout Association

In 1999 Norvan Vogt a Rover Scout from Queanbeyan Rovers, who was deployed with the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development, was able to register the organisation, to establish a national HQ and to run a series of training activities This proved to be the catalyst for a sustained period of growth of Scouting in Vanuatu.


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Waalbrug

In 1944 the Germans planned to blow up the bridge again, but Jan van Hoof, a Rover Scout and member of the Dutch Resistance, managed to prevent this.