Subject: Re: World 200nm EEZ survey
Date: May 12, 2001 @ 17:53
Author: granthutchison@cs.com (granthutchison@...)
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> Are you sure France only claims the full 200 nm EEZ around
Kerguelen?
Not at all - that's why I said "calls into question", not "makes it
wrong".
The French site isn't entirely specific, but the default
interpretation there must, as you say, be 200nm for the whole TAAF.
The CIA on the other hand are very specific indeed:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/fs.html
I've found the CIA Factbook to be entirely hopeless in some respects
(highest points, for instance), but have usually found them helpful
for things of international political significance. It's certainly an
oddly specific piece of misinformation for a government organ to
magic up out of the blue - at the very least, there's a story to it.

Grant