Subject: Re: Caribbean 200nm EEZ overview<br/>
Date: Jun 01, 2001 @ 15:58<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;grant.l.hutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1745156966">Peter:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; It is 200 nm from the baseline, not from the coast. This probably <br/>
&gt; won&#39;t make much difference, but I wonder whether it makes any all the <br/>
&gt; same. <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Much less impact, of course, at the 200nm level than at 12nm, since the <br/>
baseline has to be quite long before it begins to show a serious effect <br/>
at the 200nm limit - most river estuary baselines become irrelevant, <br/>
for instance. Big bays are, as you say, much more of a worry. And I <br/>
haven&#39;t looked at somewhere like the Maldives yet, but I think diffuse <br/>
archipelagic countries with long interisland baselines just won&#39;t <br/>
render well at all in my model.<br/>
<br/>
As I say, I look on this exercise as experimental geography - I render <br/>
the 200nm limits from GTOPO30, and then muse on the difference between <br/>
my result and the real world of maritime treaties and disputes. I would <br/>
never, for instance, have known about Isla del Coco (another <br/>
potentially habitable island a few km on a side that&#39;s missing from <br/>
GTOP30) if I hadn&#39;t noticed its EEZ linking the Galapagos to Central <br/>
America.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;(The enclave of high seas in the Barentsz Sea has this nickname loop <br/>
&gt;hole; the one in the Sea of Okhotsk is the peanut hole, the one in <br/>
&gt;the Bering Sea the donut hole).<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Lovely. (Maybe we should call the north polar high seas enclave <br/>
the &quot;ozone hole&quot;.) After while I hope to be able to generate a global <br/>
view of 200nm EEZs which more or less matches the real world at the <br/>
(low) resolution I&#39;m using. I think a north polar view would be <br/>
particularly interesting, to help judge the true extent of the polar <br/>
high seas enclaves, which are always seriously distorted on <br/>
conventional world maps.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>