i recently had & therefore we also now have an extremely interesting
message from our resident boundary rock martin regarding the elusive marine
half of the tri country world
basically the good news is that we need to add to our diet of prescott the
3volume international maritime boundary series of the american society of
international law & well i trust him to carry on directly
it is
>staggeringly expensive - US$1,134 for the three volumes published to date!
>Do you have access to the inter-library loan system? There is also a CD-ROM
>version - a snip at just $750.... (see www.kluwerlaw.com for further
>information).
>
>I hesitate to speculate about maritime tripoints, since any attempt to count
>them involves some kind of assumption about delimitation methodology. Most
>attempts to map potential maritime boundaries assume equidistance as a
>guiding principle. I have no quibble with this, as long as it is recognised
>that the eventual outcome may be very different. In practice, Victor
>Prescott's maps are probably as good a guide as any, although I don't agree
>with them in their entirety - for example, I believe there is an equidistant
>tripoint between Benin, Nigeria and Togo which he has missed. Elsewhere: in
>the 1970s the US State Department published a wallmap which might be of
>interest to you entitled 'Composite Theoretical Division of the Seabed'; I
>guess this might still be available through the CIA or FBIS. On a more
>hi-tech level, a company called MRJ has recently published a GIS database of
>maritime claims and boundary agreements
>(http://www.mrj.com/maritime/index.htm) which would help you in your
>research, but I am afraid this is also heinously expensive ($3,000 or so).
>
>As a collector of tripoints, presumably you are aware of the 1976 agreement
>between India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka defining the maritime tripoint
>between the three countries? Other agreements relating to maritime tripoints
>exist, but I believe this is the only one whose sole purpose was to define a
>tripoint.
actually this was all news to me
& happily money is no object because we dont have any
& the particular information about benin nigeria togo & india maldives
srilanka will make handsome additions to the next update of our world list
so our thanxx go again to martin & company many times over
anchors aweigh
m