Subject: re ozzy tripoints cont<br/>
Date: Jan 04, 2001 @ 17:51<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-350973766">australias maritime boundaries<br/>
by jrv prescott<br/>
has just arrived & has pretty well busted my recent surmise about there<br/>
being as many as 20 ozzy tripoints<br/>
<br/>
the main problem was that while oz doesnt have the fully manifested sort of<br/>
interstate maritime boundaries that the usa has<br/>
nor anything so clear cut as canadian federal coastal waters<br/>
it does have something in between these extremes<br/>
namely many different kinds of partial & mutually conflicting maritime<br/>
boundaries depending on particular purposes such as<br/>
safety<br/>
admin<br/>
economic<br/>
conservation<br/>
naval<br/>
recreational<br/>
etc<br/>
<br/>
the closest thing to ozzy state maritime territories appears to be what are<br/>
called adjacent areas<br/>
& in the scheme of these given by prescott there appears to be only a<br/>
single & very peculiar maritime tristate point<br/>
namely  south australia  tasmania  victoria<br/>
oddly situated sw of tasmania<br/>
<br/>
so  to recap<br/>
oz has 2 tristate points & 2 trifederative points<br/>
  as was already obvious<br/>
& perhaps this 1 strange addition<br/>
but there is no support for the 16 coastal tripoints i suggested earlier<br/>
except perhaps by a sort of default or absence of hard edged maritime<br/>
subdivision<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
maritime boundaries are generally more particular & specialized than<br/>
terrestrial ones tho<br/>
& it is an extra mess when local or national peculiarities such as these<br/>
crop up<br/>
as they always seem to do<br/>
to affect what one may have hoped would be a simple matter of counting or<br/>
listing a set of common items<br/>
<br/>
it even seems there can be no global standard of what a territory or<br/>
boundary or multipoint is<br/>
nor even any national standards<br/>
etc<br/>
since each example comes with its own legal & technical idiosyncrasies<br/>
<br/>
any comprehensive hierarchical directory of these items seems doomed either<br/>
to oversimplification or to drowning in asterisks & footnotes indicating<br/>
all the special cases</div>