Subject: Re: More holes in the world EEZ
Date: May 17, 2001 @ 11:35
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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What I do find strange, however, is that the EEZ boundary around the
Kermadecs is not interrupted. I can't see from this map whether the
Kermadec EEZ actually touches the NZ one (it wouldn't be in one, let
alone two, points; that would be too much of a coincidence), or that
the EEZ's are really linked (once or twice, in the last case leaving
the high seas clave), or not linked at all. It looks like this is not
merely a 200 nm limits map, but a EEZ limits one, since I think I can
see the EEZ bordering that of Australia (Macquarie Island).

The 2nd map I have difficulty with opening it. Might be a temporary
problem.

Peter S.

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Grant Hutchison" <grant.l.hutchison@t...>
wrote:
> See this site for three holes in New Zealand's complicated EEZ,
> including one tiny one created by the juxtaposition of the
Kermadecs
> EEZ and the indentation in North Island EEZ due to the Bay of
Plenty.
> http://www.fishinfo.co.nz/clement/atlas/nz200.html
>
> And see here for a nice map of the South China Sea, showing what is
> probably the tenth Pacific hole that Michael counted and I couldn't
> find. (Potentially an eleventh, too, since the extended Brunei
claim
> divides it.)
> http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/scs/scs-claims-map.htm
> However, if we entertain Brunei then we have to entertain all the
other
> overlapping claims in the area, which (I *think*) obliterate the
EEZ
> hole. 200nm EEZs constructed from the Spratlys, Paracels and
> Scarborough Reef fill the hole completely, for instance, although
their
> UN status would be dubious given the rather poor "habitability" of
> these locations.
>
> Grant