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Brendan

>From: Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: "BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com" <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Okino-tori Shima/Parece Vela
>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:20:12 +0100
>
>http://www.vill.ogasawara.tokyo.jp/200kairi.htm
>
>You don't have to know Japanese to see the implications of tiny rocks on
>your EEZ. The only thing I
>can read on this map is 200. Presumably the nautical miles. Okino-tori
>Shima is in the green area at
>the centre-bottom of the map, touching the central green and the dark blue
>areas.
>The site is about the Ogasawara or Bonin Islands. The green areas are
>probably the EEZ around these
>islands. The one on the right is around Marcus Isl.
>
>Note also that the Northern Territories a.k.a the Southern Kuriles are
>incorporated in Japan on this
>map. So are the Senkaku group, and the same probably goes for Tok-do a.k.a.
>Liancourt. All of this
>is disputed between Japan and other countries....
>
>Peter S.
>

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