fascinating
& it almost makes me regret backing away from the eez tps
for after all
sovereign rights tps are no less real as tps than sovereign territorial ones
it is only their constituencies or contents that are less real
so perhaps it would be sensible & interesting to continue to keep track of
the eez tps also
at least in the back of our minds
or somewhere off in a sidebar or footnote to the main collection
yet i can tell you from the efforts i have already made
eez boundaries are very much a work in process at this time
so the eez tps are generally quite hard to pin down
as many if not most of them exist only in potential
& reliable info about them tends to be squirreled away in expensive &
elusive publications
so perhaps an eez tp collection is something better postponed for as long
as possible
or even reserved for future generations
just like the human heritage areas that the eezs overlie & their outer
limits abut
if indeed i have finally got it straight
but if the distinction we are now making between sovereign territory &
sovereign rights territory sharply reduces the number of full bodied
tricountry points
whether actual or potential
it also appears to increase greatly the territorial area of everyones land
for if i havent gone astray yet again
it means the human heritage area not only abuts the outer limits of the eez
areas as previously realized but also actually underlies them all as well
so congrats to everyone
hopefully belated in this case rather than again premature
m
>
>I understand that the main interest of this group lies with land
>boundaries, and as an expansion of it, 12 nm terr. sea ones. But the
>EEZ ones are sometimes fun, too.
>
>I just read about the efforts of keeping islands, that are rapidly
>disappearing, above sea level, just in order to keep vast EEZ's in
>existance.
>
>The island Okino-tori Shima, also called Parece Vela, is a Japanese
>island in the Pacific. It is rapidly disappearing. The vanishing of
>this piece of Japanese soil will mean the loss of hundreds of square
>kilometres of EEZ, hence of fishing rights, to Japan. That's why it
>has been substantially reinforced with concrete to keep it above the
>water line in 1988. At one stage, it consisted of two parts, with a
>surface of only six and two square metres above the water line at high
>tide!!
>
>The same goes for the island of Kolbeinsey, north of and posessed by
>Iceland. This seems to have been reinforced three years earlier, just
>to safeguard Icelandic fishing rights north of the nation. This has
>implications on the bordering of the Icelandic and Danish (Greenland!)
>EEZ's in the Denmark Strait. And the Icelandic have a reputation of
>making a point of these sort of things (cod wars!).
>
>This information comes from a book by the Dutch writer and TV
>documentary maker Boudewijn Buch (Boudewijn Buch, Het IJspaleis, the
>third part of the series 'Eilanden', 1993). He is fascinated by remote
>and little known islands, and has written a couple of books about
>them.
>
>Peter S.
>
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