15th World Scout Jamboree (cancelled)
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 15th World Scout Jamboree |
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| Name | 15th World Scout Jamboree |
| Location | Neyshâbûr |
| Country | Iran |
| Date(s) | 1979 |
| Attendance | cancelled |
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The 15th World Scout Jamboree was scheduled to be held in July 1979 and was to be hosted by Iran at Neyshâbûr, but was canceled 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 the Islamic Revolution caused the 15th World Jamboree to be canceled near the end of 1978. Instead, the World Organization of the Scout Movement announced the "World Jamboree Year" by holding several international World Jamboree Year camps in Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States that took up the momentum.
The next Jamboree, hosted by Canada in 1983, was named The Spirit Lives On to show how Scoutings spirit of international brotherhood could overcome the setback of canceling the 1979 Jamboree.
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