Subject: Re: More holes in the world EEZ
Date: Dec 10, 2001 @ 14:01
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Grant Hutchison" <grant.l.hutchison@t...> wrote:
> 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