another interesting aspect of this disagreement is that
although much of it involves overlapping claims
the specific conflicting interpretations of the existing agreement
also produce 2 small polygons of underlap
so to say
or
as yet completely unclaimed & hence nonsovereign areas
enclaved within the combined disputed & undisputed sovereign
territorial seas
& since the eezs also are technically unresolved in this area
these enclaves are thus also legal exclaves of high seas
or everyones land
very much closer in to dry land than is usual
in fact with the exception of a couple of other possible cases of
underlap off the west coast of south america
which i am however still unable to confirm
such a high seas within low seas situation could well be unique
in the world
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> first the zoomed in topo at the scene of the nick
> http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=54.66778&lon=-132.68889
> southernmost dry point of southeast alaska
> & southern extremity of the alaska caus sector
> as well as the actual reference for the original 54
> forty or fight fight
> that you may recall was averted by extending the 49th
> parallel caus sector from the rockies to the pacific
> in 1846
>
> curiously tho & only incidentally
> this nick point is not the southermost dry point of
> all alaska
> since our friend amatignak island in the aleutians
> of recent highest dry west longitude in the usa fame
> actually has the added or prior distinction of being
> home to the southernmost dry point of all alaska also
>
> but anyway from here you can zoom all the way out &
> pan east thru dixon entrance into portland canal to
> see the overall dispute area & relate it to the rest
> of caus2akbc if necessary
>
> then a good short treatise on the caus dispute
> surrounding cape muzon with good maps circa 1991
> http://www.cwilson.com/pubs/energy/alaska.pdf
> but the text is also available in html at google
>
> & a local folk history of latest major freakout 1997
>
http://www.sitnews.net/JuneAllen/Border/042203_ak_ca_border.
html
>
> & a not necessarily reliable account of the diplomatic
> stalemate in recent decades
> just below halfway down this page
> http://hawk.fab2.albany.edu/fraid/fraid.htm
>
> & other than that
> this egregious tho not unique caus loose end
> just seems to be flapping elusively in the breeze
>
>
>
>
>
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