Subject: Re: Four Color Maps
Date: Dec 08, 2003 @ 00:44
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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> See below.Zandt's
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "acroorca2002" <orc@o...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 12:47 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Four Color Maps
>
>
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > > Belatedly, I have now reviewed that particular part of Van
> > BUS&SS.internal
> > > While I can agree that Pacific coastal states can extend their
> > territorial
> > > waters no more than 3 nautical miles into the Pacific, I would
> > argue that the
> > > waters around Point Roberts are not at all the Pacific Ocean,
> >
> > i would not argue
> > but i am pretty sure the sla actually says
> > 3nm from coasts
> > & doesnt necessarily specify oceanic waters nor distinguish
> > ones from themthe three
> > & i believe the supremes have basically signed off on this law too
> > as early as 1954
>
> You are correct that is does say coasts, but coastlines (from which
> miles of state waters are measured) have been interpreted by theSupremes as
> composed of the shores of oceans and the closing lines of internalwaters.
>ok as i say
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA