Thanks for the quick reply and the useful xrefs.
I'll be checking these out as time permits.
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...>
wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "geoh88" <geoh88@y...> wrote:
> > I remember a recent reference to a list of maritime tripoints
> > contained in a message from long ago.
> > I'm going (more) nuts trying to find it.
> > Can anyone help me with the message number of the latest version?
>
> the best census of the eez tripoints both actual & theoretical
> tho not technically a list
> is in the bp file entitled
> international boundaries xls
> where as many as 338 or 342 or 346 sea tripoints are given
> in column e
>
> those totals were subsequently discussed in messages 6405 & 6413 &
6415
> especially in terms of nailing down the few loose ends among them
> but i dont believe these were ever completely resolved
>
> a try at an actual list was made in message 247
> but this was crude & lame by comparison with the later census
>
> still
> checking & coordinating & refining these 2 tries
> if it doesnt make you as nuts as it did us
> may be the best available route to where you apparently want to go
>
> however there is no known breakdown between actual & theoretical
ones
>
>
> territorial sea tripoints are much rarer than eez tripoints
> & the latest try at a roundup of these
> conducted in messages 1768 & 1773
> came up completely empty at the time
> tho some very few have been created since
> while a small but unknown number of theoretical ones still await
> actualization