Subject: Re: Dry Tortugas
Date: Dec 08, 2003 @ 00:47
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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> Mike,trying to get
>
> I've cut out the mounting clutter and re-titled the thread.
>
> You wrote:
>
> > thanx very much for this choice morsel in any case
> > & you can see here that the usgs still doesnt have it right
> > http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=24.66472&lon=-82.85556
> > but draws the line between the 3nm & 9nm regimes
> > on an east west basis rather than the north south line you specify
> > something i had always suspected they had done arbitrarily
> > but couldnt prove until now
>
> Those TopoZone links never work right for me. After 15 minutes of
> to something recognizable from the various settings at the linkedURL, I gave up
> and went to TerraServer. There I easily found the big picture onthe Dry
> Tortugas at http://tinyurl.com/y5w2 .south
>
> Here you can see that this 1989 map has both east-west and north-
> components to the division between the different Gulf and theAtlantic state
> waters regimes. Admittedly, the source from which I took thedescription that I
> gave was rather simplistic. My point and that of the source wasmore that the
> Submerged Lands Act did trump the pre-existing state claims in theAtlantic
> (however defined). I will endeavor to research the actual SCOTUSdecision and
> render a full report.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA