Subject: Re: An Indian Ocean high seas enclave
Date: Dec 10, 2001 @ 11:57
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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grant another case of believe it or not i still cant get this attachment but it intrigues me & i would like both to see it & compare it to prescott because i had a feeling at one point while i was on the road missing things that you had actually exceeded or were on the brink of exceeding his inventory & perhaps this was the moment right here

also can you describe what the cargados carajos might look like from your admiralty chart

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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., granthutchison@c... wrote:

> Attached is an EEZ rendering of the Indian Ocean north-east of Madagascar,

> with one nice high seas enclave I'm prepared to hang my hat on, and another

> tiny little thing I really wouldn't swear to at all.

>

> The "big" enclave is defined by the 200nm limits of:

> Northwest - Farquhar Atoll (Seychelles)

> Northeast - Agalega Islands (Mauritius)

> South - Ile Tromelin (France, administered by Reunion)

> All of these islands are visible on my map, though Tromelin is just a pixel.

> The enclave's size can be judged by the fact that the image is rendered at

> one pixel per minute of arc; so the centre of the enclave (12 28 S 53 43 E)

> is ~10nm outside the various bounding EEZs.

> Now I know it's there, I can see a hint of this enclave on our favourite

> maritime boundary map (http://www.maritimeboundaries.com): the hypothetical

> equidistant lines don't meet up in this area, leaving a little blur of 200nm

> limits. This looks slightly elongated towards Madagascar compared to my

> version, and I could certainly buy that - the distance from Farquhar to

> Tromelin by my calculations is 390nm, so slight differences between reality

> and the map could potentially lengthen that end of the enclave quite markedly.

> The other little patch of blue is bounded by Tromelin, Agalega and another

> little-known Mauritian dependency, the Cargados Carajos / St Brandon Shoals.

> (Despite the name, these do support a population, though I think it's largely

> seasonal.) This possible enclave is only a couple of nautical miles across,

> so it falls within the demonstrated error of my mapping program, and I ain't

> going to vouch for it.

>

> I have a gorgeous Admiralty Chart of Cargados Carajos, BTW: I'm sitting

> smiling at it as I type.