Subject: exclaves restored to everyones land
Date: Mar 21, 2001 @ 19:11
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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great ones bill


this morning i was blaming turkey & specifically the bosporus &or the
dardanelles for being so narrow as to separate the black sea exclave of
everyones land from metro everyones land
when i realized how dumb this was

for there are lots of other great backwaters of the global sea than just
the black sea having bottlenecks with less than 24nm clearance of land

indeed you wouldnt have to proceed far out of the black sea to meet another
of our potential exclaves
the sea of marmara
& then immediately at least 2 more
in the aegean sea & the sea of crete
except that all these probably also qualify as historic enclosures
so any potential claims on them by everyones land would be rightfully
preempted by their traditional owners

but if you continued
you would soon meet a true clavemate in the mediterranean at large
which does fully qualify to be the container of our second true exclave

& i think the baltic & its gulfs & the white sea might give you or rather
us a few more true exclaves even before we left europe
so that if we continued tramping around the world like this looking for
bays & gulfs & seas that qualify
it seems likely we might restore the full complement of a dozen or more
that we previously imagined we had when reckoning the eezs as the sovereign
territory of the wrong countries

it is just that now with true sovereign territory the claves will fall in
different places than previously thought

so mats i withdraw most of my apology
as it now seems i was more nearly right than i imagined

m