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From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 12:21 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Four Color Maps

> actually the usgs is quite inconsistent about showing the 3 mile
> limits
> & also about showing county & state lines in the sea
>
> it does close the mouths of chesapeake & delaware & new york & cape
> cod bays
> but not of florida bay
> despite the notorious shallowness of the latter

Florida Bay is not internal waters (so say the Supremes), so it has no closing
line. It is subject only to the acrs of the three-league line from the mainland
and the Keys, as depicted nicely at http://tinyurl.com/yd62 .

> it even shows a bit of the 3nm line within the otherwise undoubtedly
> internal waters of mississippi in mississippi sound
> yikes
> thats right
> a little enclave of federal waters within mississippi waters
> hard to believe

The map at http://tinyurl.com/yd7a shows three such federal enclaves within
Mississippi waters and one more surrounded by Mississippi and Alabama waters!

> ...
> it shows almost none of the 3 mile limit in louisiana

The Official Map of Louisiana 2000 ("Best Map" in 2001 Avenza-MAPublisher Map
Competition) does show the state's entire seaward boundary, marked "State
Waters" and "Federal Waters" on its two sides. The boundary is visible on a
low-resolution version at
http://www.avenza.com/MPcomp/2001/maps/GenPurp_Snead.jpg .

> ...

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA