I understand that the main interest of this group lies with land
boundaries, and as an expansion of it, 12 nm terr. sea ones. But the
EEZ ones are sometimes fun, too.

I just read about the efforts of keeping islands, that are rapidly
disappearing, above sea level, just in order to keep vast EEZ's in
existance.

The island Okino-tori Shima, also called Parece Vela, is a Japanese
island in the Pacific. It is rapidly disappearing. The vanishing of
this piece of Japanese soil will mean the loss of hundreds of square
kilometres of EEZ, hence of fishing rights, to Japan. That's why it
has been substantially reinforced with concrete to keep it above the
water line in 1988. At one stage, it consisted of two parts, with a
surface of only six and two square metres above the water line at high
tide!!

The same goes for the island of Kolbeinsey, north of and posessed by
Iceland. This seems to have been reinforced three years earlier, just
to safeguard Icelandic fishing rights north of the nation. This has
implications on the bordering of the Icelandic and Danish (Greenland!)
EEZ's in the Denmark Strait. And the Icelandic have a reputation of
making a point of these sort of things (cod wars!).

This information comes from a book by the Dutch writer and TV
documentary maker Boudewijn Buch (Boudewijn Buch, Het IJspaleis, the
third part of the series 'Eilanden', 1993). He is fascinated by remote
and little known islands, and has written a couple of books about
them.

Peter S.