Subject: Re: answer to extra credit question<br/>
Date: Jul 31, 2005 @ 19:07<br/>
Author: Martin Pratt (&quot;Martin Pratt&quot; &lt;m.a.pratt@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1048370396">Thought the following news report might interest those of you who have<br/>
been musing on the boundaries of the BVI recently. <br/>
<br/>
I have actually been staying in the BVI for the last month. For the<br/>
last week there has been wild partying in the streets of Road Town,<br/>
but it turns out most people were celebrating the emancipation of the<br/>
island from slavery in 1834, and not the establishment of a maritime<br/>
boundary with Anguilla as I first assumed.<br/>
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m a r t i n<br/>
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BVI and Anguilla establish territories&#39; marine boundary By ANGELA<br/>
BURNS-PIPER Tuesday, July 12th 2005<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=6742978">http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=6742978</a><br/>
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TORTOLA - The British Virgin Islands and Anguilla have established a<br/>
maritime boundary between the two territories.<br/>
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BVI Gov. Thomas Macan and Anguilla leader Allan Huckle each issued<br/>
proclamations Monday on the boundary.<br/>
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The boundary first was agreed to in 2002, following negotiations<br/>
dating to 1991 between the governments of Anguilla and the British<br/>
Virgin Islands. The talks were facilitated by the United Kingdom&#39;s<br/>
Hydrographic Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which<br/>
provided technical and legal advice.<br/>
<br/>
The initial delay during the negotiations was caused by a disagreement<br/>
over the consideration of Sombrero Island in determining the boundary.<br/>
<br/>
Anguilla wanted 100 percent weight given to Sombrero when calculating<br/>
the boundary, but the British Virgin Islands wanted 50 percent of the<br/>
island to count toward the boundary while adding White Horse to the mix.<br/>
<br/>
White Horse is an uninhabited coral rock standing 3 feet above the<br/>
high-water mark on Horseshoe Reef, south of Anegada. Sombrero is a<br/>
94-acre island that in the past contained a manned lighthouse and was<br/>
a phosphate mining site.<br/>
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The new boundary replaces the median line, used on a provisional basis<br/>
when Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands established their fishery<br/>
zones.<br/>
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The U.N. Secretary General, regional organizations and neighboring<br/>
countries will be informed of the new maritime boundary, which<br/>
represents a delimitation of the fisheries zone and the continental shelf.<br/>
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The U.K. government now will take steps to extend the territorial seas<br/>
of the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla from three to 12 miles.<br/>
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- Contact Angela Burns-Piper at 284-494-1291 or e-mail<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:angelaburnspiper@...">angelaburnspiper@...</a>.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Kevin Meynell &lt;knm@m...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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&gt;&gt; yes gb distinguishes the ai based eez from its vg based counterpart <br/>
&gt;&gt; for some unknown reason<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Because they are different territories that may potentially be split <br/>
&gt; (through independence or otherwise) in future. Furthermore, there <br/>
&gt; needs to be clarity as to where any revenues would accrue. </span></blockquote></div>