Subject: Re: World 200nm EEZ survey
Date: May 11, 2001 @ 23:19
Author: granthutchison@cs.com (granthutchison@...)
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> beautifully done once again grant
Ah but. Peter just wrote how as soon as he posts a question here, he
finds the answer for himself. Preserving the 12nm/200nm symmetry
you've just delighted in, I find as soon as I post an answer, I find
something that calls it into question ...

I was just checking around to see if perhaps the Prince Edwards or
the Crozets had some especially extended EEZ to account for your
impression that they merged into a single enclave at this level.
Instead, I find that in its Southern and Antarctic Territories,
France exercises its claim to a 200nm EEZ around Kerguelen only. This
collapses the enclaves around the Crozets and Amsterdam/St Paul to
12nm, fissioning both of them: Amsterdam and St Paul separate
north/south into individual enclaves; the Crozets split east and
west, with the western enclave consisting of Apotres, Cochons and
Pingouins (Apostles, Pigs and Penguins - spot the odd one out!) and
the eastern containing Possession and de l'Est.
Further checking to make sure nothing like this was happening
elsewhere reveals Bouvet also devoid of an EEZ, with territorial
waters only to 4nm - therefore the smallest of the perforations in
Everyone's Land.

Grant