Subject: Re: More holes in the world EEZ
Date: Dec 10, 2001 @ 14:01
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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i have no idea about the paracels or scarboro reef but from this map & a more detailed one in prescott i surmise there may be as many as 33 spratly islands not only capable of habitation but in some cases actually occupied by nationals of various claimant countries

& i also gather it may already be possible to determine putative or de facto 12nm territorial seas for each island or cluster as well as their points of multiconjunction whether using only these data or preferably any better maps & more recent reports of exactly who is occupying exactly which of these lets say 33 islands

& then crazy as that may already sound yet it may then also be possible to further inflate these putative territorial sea bubbles into putative eez bubbles at the expense of the nearby eez hole & of course determine their points of multiconjunction too

& tho the resulting maps wouldnt at all reflect the legal status quo they might still be the best available version of the truth on the ground & would thus promote or at least no longer impede the completion of our first minimax global territorial mosaics

m



--- 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