Subject: absolute bpn & bps advance<br/>
Date: May 25, 2003 @ 17:34<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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first regarding absolute bpn<br/>
since no protruding continental shelves or slopes have been found anywhere <br/>
north of nlat 87<br/>
the question evidently boils down to<br/>
what is the northernmost eez point in the world<br/>
<br/>
& this has since 1980 been projected 200 nautical miles northward from a <br/>
point already very near jespers new island<br/>
on one of the other little islands lying also about 1 nautical mile north of <br/>
kaffeeklubben<br/>
& which is known simply as straight baseline point 96<br/>
or nlat 83d40m30s by wlong 30d40m42s<br/>
& which has thus produced the existing absolute bpn<br/>
at nlat 87d00m30s by wlong 30d40m42s<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
if denmark or greenland ever bothers to amend its straight baselines so as <br/>
to include the new island<br/>
then absolute bpn will jump a few hundred feet farther north as well as a <br/>
couple miles laterally<br/>
to nlat 87d00m34s8 by wlong 30d38m38s6<br/>
the previously identified maximum potential bpn based on land known to exist <br/>
as of today<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
then zipping back down to absolute bps<br/>
by sheer good luck it turns out that the only land area anywhere near the <br/>
slat 60 antarctic treaty cutoff point is the south sandwich islands<br/>
a british dependency for which the fullest possible claims of a 12nm <br/>
territorial sea & 200nm eez have been duly made<br/>
producing a worlds southernmost sovereign territorial point at least <br/>
somewhere on slat 59d59m<br/>
yikes a scant mile shy of the legal apparent cutoff point at slat 60<br/>
<br/>
i say apparent because i still dont know if the south sandwich eez claim of <br/>
200nm is cut off by the slat60 limit of the antarctic treaty & thus fixes <br/>
absolute bps right there by law<br/>
or whether the full 200nm eez is legally permissible beyond slat 60<br/>
in which case absolute bps is pushed all the way south to slat 63d07m<br/>
<br/>
interestingly it is only the south sandwich eez & no others that hang in the <br/>
balance here of how to correctly understand the cutoff described in article <br/>
vi of the treaty<br/>
<br/>
& that is apparently the only remaining loose end<br/>
for determining all the global bp extremities<br/>
& it strikes me as an extremely interesting question in any case<br/>
<br/>
so anyone please help tie it down if you can<br/>
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