--- aletheia kallos <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
> --- Brendan Whyte <bwhyte@...> wrote:
> > there's an 8mile gap between the Egyptian border
> at
> > Taba and the
> > Hejaz border south of Aqaba, but an interesting
> > history of the town
> > is recounted, including Aqaba being the site for a
> > brazen crusader
> > attempt to ravage Araby, after using camel
> caravans
> > to carry
> > prefabricated boats from Amman to the coast, and
> > assemble them there.
> > It failed, but only after intervention by an
> > Egyptian fleet.
>
> thanx for understanding
>
> & if you will click on this cropped pic so as to
> extend the view to the right side of the frame
> or in other words a bit farther to the south
>
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/compress/2002/267/08.htm
> i believe you will get a distant view of the egiljo
> territorial sea tripoint
> in the haze at far right
>
> & clicking similarly on this pic
>
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/compress/2002/267/33.htm
> which will in this case extend the view westward
> should give a comparable view of the egjosa
> territorial sea tripoint
> in the distance at left
> which is roughly the same 8 miles you mention
> farther
> down the gulf
>
> as this zoomable also suggests
>
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=39.45&TextLongitude=-98.907&TextAltitude=0&TextSelectedEntity=39070&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=elat&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on
>
> i believe both of these tripoints however may still
> be
> only hypothetical equidistance types
> since i am not aware of any agreements that pin them
> down
>
> but perhaps the tries for them can now be advanced
> or
> improved
Yes indeed, Sahib, for you must of course mean the
view toward EGJOSA from Egypt is eastward (rather than
westward) across the gulf, which I can easily overlook
and chalk up to your infamous sydlexia; but what you
have completely overlooked yourself, beyond that, is
the fact that Jordan claims an exceptional territorial
sea of only 3nm (while all the others claim the
standard 12nm). Nor am I sure what this means for the
placement of the tripoints. But since an equidistant
EGILJO (near the narrow head of the gulf) would fall
less than 3nm from the lands of all three countries, I
presume it means nothing special in that case. Only
EGJOSA, in being situated at a wider part of the gulf
and still having to fall no more than 3nm seaward of
Jordan's coastal baselines (if they are ever declared
and published), would necessarily lie a bit closer to
the eastern shore than the western one...assuming
Egypt may legally scarf up anything beyond the median
line that Jordan doesn't claim (...which I can't
safely do since I don't know if she can, but let's
hope someone can and will respond to fill in this
curious blank). --Jimi
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