sharp shooting & to the point there martin
as well as on the spot

so
the aiusvg tripoint that was created internationally
in the 1980gbus1994 treaty was based only on a
provisional median line
& predated by 11 years this internal british
1991aivg2005 delineation

but then
just out of curiosity
can you confirm if the newly agreed aivg alignment
reaches the same provisional tripoint specified in the
gbus treaty
namely
nlat 17d57m51s x 63d53m53s wlong

--- Martin Pratt <m.a.pratt@...> wrote:

> Thought the following news report might interest
> those of you who have
> been musing on the boundaries of the BVI recently.
>
> I have actually been staying in the BVI for the last
> month. For the
> last week there has been wild partying in the
> streets of Road Town,
> but it turns out most people were celebrating the
> emancipation of the
> island from slavery in 1834, and not the
> establishment of a maritime
> boundary with Anguilla as I first assumed.
>
> m a r t i n
>
>
> BVI and Anguilla establish territories' marine
> boundary By ANGELA
> BURNS-PIPER Tuesday, July 12th 2005
>

http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=6742978

>
> TORTOLA - The British Virgin Islands and Anguilla
> have established a
> maritime boundary between the two territories.
>
> BVI Gov. Thomas Macan and Anguilla leader Allan
> Huckle each issued
> proclamations Monday on the boundary.
>
> The boundary first was agreed to in 2002, following
> negotiations
> dating to 1991 between the governments of Anguilla
> and the British
> Virgin Islands. The talks were facilitated by the
> United Kingdom's
> Hydrographic Office and Foreign and Commonwealth
> Office, which
> provided technical and legal advice.
>
> The initial delay during the negotiations was caused
> by a disagreement
> over the consideration of Sombrero Island in
> determining the boundary.
>
> Anguilla wanted 100 percent weight given to Sombrero
> when calculating
> the boundary, but the British Virgin Islands wanted
> 50 percent of the
> island to count toward the boundary while adding
> White Horse to the mix.
>
> White Horse is an uninhabited coral rock standing 3
> feet above the
> high-water mark on Horseshoe Reef, south of Anegada.
> Sombrero is a
> 94-acre island that in the past contained a manned
> lighthouse and was
> a phosphate mining site.
>
> The new boundary replaces the median line, used on a
> provisional basis
> when Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands
> established their fishery
> zones.
>
> The U.N. Secretary General, regional organizations
> and neighboring
> countries will be informed of the new maritime
> boundary, which
> represents a delimitation of the fisheries zone and
> the continental shelf.
>
> The U.K. government now will take steps to extend
> the territorial seas
> of the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla from
> three to 12 miles.
>
> - Contact Angela Burns-Piper at 284-494-1291 or
> e-mail
> angelaburnspiper@....
>
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell
> <knm@m...> wrote:
>
> >> yes gb distinguishes the ai based eez from its vg
> based counterpart
> >> for some unknown reason
> >
> > Because they are different territories that may
> potentially be split
> > (through independence or otherwise) in future.
> Furthermore, there
> > needs to be clarity as to where any revenues would
> accrue.
>
>
>
>

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