Most of these are *fragments*, not exclaves, as they are bordered by more
than one country.
BW
>From: michael donner <m@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] exclaves of everyones land revised
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:31:15 -0500
>
>bottlenecks apparently narrower than 24nm apparently qualify the following
>international seas to contain exclaves of everyones land in the numbers
>indicated
>
>
>3 black sea
> main body
> sea of azov
> gulf of taganrog
>
>1 aegean sea north central part
> w of samos & khios & mytilene & northward
>
>1 mediterranean sea
> main body
>
>1 irish sea
> main body
>
>5 baltic sea
> main body
> gulf of riga
> gulf of bothnia upper
> gulf of bothnia lower
> kattegat very close
>
>2 red sea
> main body
> southern end
>
>2 persian gulf
> main body
> eastern end
>
>1 sulu sea perhaps
>
>1 celebes sea perhaps
>
>1 in nares strait between kane basin & lincoln sea
> if so apparently the only american instance
>
>
>total perhaps 18 worldwide
>
>
>so it is looking more or less like a regular golf course once again
>after a first global roundup try with crude maps
>
>but of course anyone with better maps & more patience is cordially invited
>to confirm or douse any of these
>which are still conjectural even as an overall concept at this point anyway
>
>
>note that none of these exclaves are enclaves within any single country
>tho they might be considered enclaved within their surrounding sea
>but that would be an unusual usage of the term
>
>
>on the other hand
>island based enclaves within everyones land
>formerly also reported to number about 18
>probably jump into the hundreds when the 200nm line is replaced with the
>12nm line in that case as well
>
>
>the bottom line after all these changes is
>everyones land is now looking far vaster than previously thought
>even if much of it has been stripped of mineral rights etc
>
>m
>
>
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