Subject: World 200nm EEZ survey<br/>
Date: May 10, 2001 @ 22:17<br/>
Author: granthutchison@cs.com (granthutchison@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-645677249">Since I seem to be the champion of the 200nm Exclusive Economic Zone <br/>
territorial limit, I thought I&#39;d revisit Michael&#39;s posting 1281, and <br/>
provide what additional detail I can.<br/>
Here goes; land first, water next, and sticking where possible to <br/>
Michael&#39;s scheme.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
E.E.Z. ISLAND ENCLAVES<br/>
<br/>
Atlantic Ocean:<br/>
1. Ascension (UK)<br/>
2. Azores (Portugal)<br/>
3. Bermuda (UK)<br/>
4. Bouvet Island (Norway)<br/>
5. Saint Helena (UK)<br/>
6. Shag Rocks to South Sandwich Islands (UK)<br/>
7. Trindade & Martin Vaz Islands (Brazil)<br/>
8. Tristan da Cunha group (UK)<br/>
<br/>
Indian Ocean:<br/>
1. Amsterdam & Saint Paul Islands (France)<br/>
2. Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)<br/>
3. Crozet Islands (France)<br/>
4. Heard & McDonald Islands (Australia)<br/>
5. Kerguelen Islands (France) <br/>
6. Prince Edward Islands (South Africa)<br/>
<br/>
Pacific Ocean:<br/>
1. Clipperton Island (France)<br/>
2. Desventurados Islands (Chile)<br/>
3. Easter Island & Sala y Gomez Island (Chile)<br/>
4. Johnston Island (USA)<br/>
5. Midway to Hawaii (USA)<br/>
6. Minami Tori Shima (Japan)<br/>
<br/>
Notes:<br/>
a) Kerguelen and Heard & McDonald coalesce into a twin enclave.<br/>
b) Although Prince Edward and the Crozets are also listed by Michael <br/>
as forming a geminate enclave, 505 nautical miles separate the <br/>
closest points I can find: North East Cape (Prince Edward Island) and <br/>
Cap des Flaque (Ile aux Cochons).<br/>
 <br/>
<br/>
E.E.Z. OCEAN ENCLAVES (with bounding territories)<br/>
<br/>
Arctic:<br/>
1. Arctic Ocean <br/>
(Russia, Norway, Greenland [Den], Canada, USA)<br/>
2. Barents Sea<br/>
(Russia, Norway, Svalbard [Nor])<br/>
3. Norwegian Sea<br/>
(Svalbard [Nor], Norway, Faroes [Den], Iceland, Jan Mayen [Nor], <br/>
Greenland [Den])<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Gulf of Mexico:<br/>
1. Gulf of Mexico East <br/>
(USA, Mexico)<br/>
2. Gulf of Mexico West <br/>
(USA, Cuba, Mexico)<br/>
<br/>
Pacific:<br/>
1. Bering Sea <br/>
(Russia, USA)<br/>
2. Sea of Okhotsk <br/>
(Russia)<br/>
3. Shikoku Basin <br/>
(Japan)<br/>
4. Philippine Sea <br/>
(Japan, Northern Marianas [USA], Guam [USA], Micronesia, Palau, <br/>
Phillipines)<br/>
5. Caroline Basin <br/>
(Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Palau)<br/>
6. Melanesian Basin <br/>
(Micronesia, Marshalls, Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Solomons, <br/>
Papua New Guinea)<br/>
7. North Fiji Basin <br/>
(Solomons, Fiji, Vanuatu)<br/>
8. South Fiji Basin <br/>
(Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Norfolk Island [Aus], New Caledonia [Fr])<br/>
9. Penrhyn Basin <br/>
(Cook Islands [NZ], Kiribati, French Polynesia [Fr])<br/>
<br/>
Notes:<br/>
a) Michael mentions 10 Pacific enclaves; so far I&#39;ve found only nine <br/>
(any suggestions?).<br/>
b) Vanuatu claims Hunter & Matthew Islands (New Caledonia), and <br/>
therefore also has a contested border on the South Fiji Basin.<br/>
c) Kusaie (Kosrae) Island in Micronesia is 420 nautical miles from <br/>
Nauru – this leaves a 20 nautical mile channel between the two <br/>
territories and allows the Melanesian basin its short border with the <br/>
Marshall Islands.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
SUMMARY<br/>
<br/>
So &quot;Everyone&#39;s Land&quot; (Antarctica Treaty territory and the World <br/>
Ocean) is perforated by twenty holes:<br/>
a) One World Continent of 200+ nations & dependencies, in turn <br/>
containing 14 ocean enclaves<br/>
b) One geminate land enclave, containing the Kerguelen Islands and <br/>
Heard & McDonald<br/>
c) Eighteen single land enclaves, containing other isolated islands <br/>
and island groups<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>