wow & thanx
that literally explains everything
--- "Lowell G. McManus" <
mcmanus71496@...> wrote:
> Actually, the elusive Smuggler Gulch is located west
> of there, about 2� miles
> from the beach, as can be seen at
> http://tinyurl.com/6ky6k . It is the
> watercourse known in Mexico as Ca�ada al Matadero
> [Gorge to the Slaughterhouse]
> on the 15-minute maps.
>
> The boundary between MX and US territorial waters
> was established in the 1970
> treaty. It begins at the end of the land boundary
> and "shall run seaward on a
> line the delineation of which represents a practical
> simplification, through a
> series of straight lines, of the line drawn in
> accordance with the principle of
> equidistance [per Geneva, etc., etc.]. This line
> shall extend seaward to a
> distance of 12 nautical miles from the baseline used
> for its delineation along
> the coast of the mainland and the islands of the
> Contracting States." The 1970
> treaty directed the International Boundary and Water
> Commission to prepare a map
> which was annexed to and made part of the treaty by
> reference. That map shows
> the terminal point of the land boundary, three
> turning points in the sea, and
> the outer terminal point at the limit of the
> territorial sea. The coordinates
> of all points are specified to the centisecond. The
> terminal point of the
> boundary at the limit of the territorial sea is the
> same as the point
> denominated "OP-1" in the 1978 treaty at your UN
> link. That treaty begins at 12
> nautical miles and carries the EEZ boundary out to
> 200 nautical miles.
>
> That "OP-1" point, according to the IBWC's map
> annexed to the 1970 treaty, is
> precisely twelve nautical miles equidistant from
> Point Loma in the USA and the
> northernmost of the Islas los Coronados in Mexico.
> The western portion of the
> EEZ boundary shown on the map at your Veridan link
> also seems to be based on
> equidistance between the Channel Islands (San
> Clemente or perhaps San Nicholas)
> in the USA and Isla Guadalupe in Mexico.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:21 AM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] daily breeze
>
>
> >
> >
>
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/1233277.html
> > disregarding the flagrant misstatement of fact in
> the
> > lede paragraph
> > the elusive smugglers gulch is evidently situated
> > where the tijuana river crosses caus
> > hopefully as shown here
> >
>
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=11&X=153&Y=1125&W=3&qs=%7cimperial+beach%7c%7c
> > some 3 & a half miles straight inland from the
> beach
> > where the westernmost stretch of the so called
> > california mexico border really does lie
> > or at least the dry portion of it
> >
> > & of course the also partly walled wet portion of
> the
> > so called california mexico border extends
> > coincidentally
> > another 3 & a half miles straight out to sea
> > to camxus
> >
>
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=18&Z=11&X=8&Y=69&W=1&qs=%7cimperial+beach%7c%7c
> > where california finally does quit in earnest
> >
> > tho of course mexico continues farther out to sea
> from
> > there along maritime mxus
> >
> > which then proceeds to zigzag all over the place
> for
> > some unknown reason
> > perhaps territorial exchanges
> > thru the 4 turnpoint coords given at the bottom of
> > page 1 here
> >
>
http://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/MEX-USA1978MB.PDF
> >
> > & finally
> > or rather semifinally
> > the position of the mxusmxus quadripoint
> > where territorial waters end & eezs kick in
> > isnt clear yet
> > but it may be at or near the northernmost
> turnpoint as
> > shown indistinctly here
> >
>
http://www.veridian.com/offerings/images/maritime_large.jpg
> > & where you can also see
> > finally at last
> > & somewhat more clearly
> > the eez tripoint of mxus with everyones land
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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