Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: global clave census in progress
Date: May 10, 2001 @ 05:52
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>& this is the only peg we have to hang our analytic hat on in this area
>the entire
>Strait of Gibraltar is territorial sea (in theory delimited by median
>lines pending boundary agreements between the littoral states)
>With regard to pockets of high seas surrounded by the territorial sea ofhere our entire hat rack falls over
>a single country, there is one in the western Aegean to the south of
>Euboea. However, it only exists because Greece only claims a 6 nautical
>mile territorial sea; if it ever claims a 12 nm territorial sea, the
>'enclave' would disappear. Whether others would appear elsewhere in the
>Aegean as a result would probably depend on the outcome of the
>Greek-Turkish war that would likely follow such an extension....