you may be right

indeed most maps i have seen indicate you are right

but i was thinking the 3 mile limits imposed by the submerged lands
act would probably trump the statehood specs of all but texas & gulf
coast florida
since
unless i am mistaken
that law specifically exempts only these 2

but i dont have it in front of me

& i would be glad to see something definitive on this

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> wrote:
>
> > the only known case of an inland doing what you say is point

roberts

> > washington
> > which is separated from the rest of washington by more than 6
> > nautical miles & is thus an exclave of washington
> > tho not enclaved in anything
>
> According to Van Zandt, the 1889 Act of Congress admitting the

State of

> Washington specified its northern boundary running westward along

the Canadian

> boundary to the Pacific. Therefore, wouldn't the state's waters

extend along

> and to the wet segment of the CAUS boundary that runs from Point

Roberts to the

> Pacific Ocean? That 142-mile segment through the Strait of

Georgia, the Haro

> Strait, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca had already been arbitrated

in 1872 by

> Emperor William I of Germany. If these internal waters are indeed

territorial

> to the State of Washington, then the state is a contiguous whole,

including

> Point Roberts.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA