Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] hopes for a quintisecondary point are waning<br/>
Date: Nov 28, 2000 @ 21:40<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1027074809"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;tho the caspian & black seas could still conceivably yield quintinational<br/>
&gt;points if they are ever divided up among their coastal countries<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>No. each coastal nation will , as per international law, use negotiated <br/>
equidistance lines out to sea from the extrewmity of their land boundaries, <br/>
and these will not end up in anythingm ore than a tripoint or 2. It is <br/>
possible that they could negotiate to create a multipoint, but extremely <br/>
unlikely given the geographies of each sea in question. Much more likely <br/>
that a few connected tripoints will emerge as a result of equidistance <br/>
principles, possibly with some negotiated changes, as per the German seas in <br/>
the North sea which extend further than pure equidistance would suggest.<br/>
<br/>
Brendan<br/>
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