how do you get the extra 2 miles?

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From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 4:10 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: The border between nowhere and somewhere

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > Always wondered by tripoint are always located at the middle of
> nowhere?
>
> usually because the tripoint represents historically the last place
> anybody cared about
>
> for example in the usa many of the tristate points are attached to
> or completely surrounded by indian reservations
>
> >my question: You are standing at the Pacific beach of let's say
> USA. The you are offcourse in the USA. Walk out 5 meters, and
> you would still claim you are in the US.
> >
> > How far out should you get before you are no longer in the
> USA?
>
> the sovereign territory of the usa & most other countries ends 12
> nautical miles farther out to sea than the coastal baselines
> which themselves connect all the capes & other headlands at
> low tide
>
> so in most cases you would have to walk at least 14 miles
> farther out to sea
>
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