still no tripoints or answers but once begun it is hard to stop
http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/10/02/d31002020328.htm
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/69335/1
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> no kidding
> & no help with our question but awful timely
> http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/10/01/d3100101055.htm
> http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/10/01/d31001020323.htm
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
> <orc@o...> wrote:
> > arif
> >
> > > By the way, I have no idea whether the Bangladeshi
> > > distrcts or the federal government is in charge of the
> > > sea water. However, the country claims its
> > > territorial sea from a baseline as the coastline is
> > > not very smooth. It is quite likely that the seawater
> > > within the baseline belongs to the district.
> >
> > i agree
> >
> > in canada also at least
> > & possibly elsewhere in the british commonwealth
> > the same coastal baselines that separate territorial seas
from
> > internal waters by international law
> > are also used to separate the federal from the provincial
> waters
> > by national law
> >
> > so in the absence of anything better to go on
> > i think it is a good bet for bangladesh too
> > as well as for other countries of similar background
> >
> >
> > As I
> > > tend not to trust cartographical boundaries and I have
> > > not bothered asking the government any questions, I
> > > will sit on the fence for now.