Subject: checklist of possibly real maritime tri country points<br/>
Date: Mar 15, 2001 @ 04:45<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1029711516">please confirm or rule out any of the following maritime tri country point<br/>
guesses that you can<br/>
&or please add to the list if you can<br/>
<br/>
any positive findings will be combined with the list of the 161 continental<br/>
tri country points that have been previously identified<br/>
<br/>
  exact legal coords win a prize<br/>
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<br/>
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bahrain  qatar  saudi arabia<br/>
<br/>
belize guatemala honduras<br/>
<br/>
djibouti eritrea yemen<br/>
<br/>
egypt israel jordan<br/>
<br/>
el salvador  honduras  nicaragua<br/>
<br/>
france  netherlands  united kingdom<br/>
  between anguilla & st martin<br/>
<br/>
indonesia malaysia singapore<br/>
<br/>
iran iraq kuwait<br/>
<br/>
israel  jordan  saudi arabia<br/>
<br/>
qatar  saudi arabia  united arab emirates<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& finally the spratly islands mess involving up to 6 countries<br/>
for which there are perhaps dozens of possible tripoint permutations<br/>
& about which any informed estimates or guesses would be appreciated<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
remember<br/>
the name of the game is now 12 nautical miles<br/>
  which means about 14 statute miles<br/>
<br/>
so in order to produce real full bodied tricountry trisovereign points<br/>
  meaning the kind we are used to acknowledging on dry land<br/>
    &or in fresh water<br/>
& not merely the highly dilute sort of trieez or trisovereignrights points<br/>
  which i have until yesterday been swallowing & mistaking for the real mccoy<br/>
these maritime sovereign territorial boundary trijunctions<br/>
  if indeed there are any<br/>
must occur at positions that lie within 12nm of dry lands belonging to all<br/>
3 participating countries<br/>
<br/>
of course to then qualify as actual & not merely potential<br/>
any suitably close & thus potentially convergent international boundaries<br/>
must also have been fully negotiated by the countries who share them<br/>
<br/>
for tho equidistance is a broadly recognized principle of fairness<br/>
it does not in itself carry the force of an international treaty<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so there are really two questions lurking behind each item<br/>
<br/>
are lands of the 3 countries close enough to even produce a tripoint<br/>
&<br/>
have the countries actually established an authoritative position for that<br/>
point yet<br/>
<br/>
m</div>