Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] exclaves restored to everyones land
Date: Mar 21, 2001 @ 20:08
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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er forget the white sea since that is a russian close
but there could be scads more good ones off the coasts of asia

m


>
>great ones bill
>
>
>this morning i was blaming turkey & specifically the bosporus &or the
>dardanelles for being so narrow as to separate the black sea exclave of
>everyones land from metro everyones land
>when i realized how dumb this was
>
>for there are lots of other great backwaters of the global sea than just
>the black sea having bottlenecks with less than 24nm clearance of land
>
>indeed you wouldnt have to proceed far out of the black sea to meet another
>of our potential exclaves
> the sea of marmara
>& then immediately at least 2 more
> in the aegean sea & the sea of crete
>except that all these probably also qualify as historic enclosures
>so any potential claims on them by everyones land would be rightfully
>preempted by their traditional owners
>
>but if you continued
>you would soon meet a true clavemate in the mediterranean at large
>which does fully qualify to be the container of our second true exclave
>
>& i think the baltic & its gulfs & the white sea might give you or rather
>us a few more true exclaves even before we left europe
>so that if we continued tramping around the world like this looking for
>bays & gulfs & seas that qualify
>it seems likely we might restore the full complement of a dozen or more
>that we previously imagined we had when reckoning the eezs as the sovereign
>territory of the wrong countries
>
>it is just that now with true sovereign territory the claves will fall in
>different places than previously thought
>
>so mats i withdraw most of my apology
>as it now seems i was more nearly right than i imagined
>
>m
>
>
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