the following recent comments may indeed have been too
free
& thus may need to be corrected or at least hedged a
bit
which i have tried to do just beneath them
> we could even entertain a domtom or ultramarine or
> absolute or really extremest possible fre
>
> perhaps therefore aka free
>
> & i would guess this point is somewhere in the
> easternmost territorial sea off new caledonia
> or better yet
> make that its easternmost eez
> which you can only imagine from this subdivisional
map
> a few degrees still farther east of the east coast
of
> the easternmost island of mare
>
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/nouvellecaledonie
> tho you can clearly see at least someones idea of
the
> easternmost major tripoint of france there
> namely fr2nc3ilnosu i think
first it seems new caledonia is no longer considered
outre mer
so please forget the specific bits about domtom or
ultramarine
oops
hard to keep track of french territorial categories
secondly the ilnosu tripoint shown on the map must
indeed be only someones idea
since the location is evidently much more than 12
nautical miles from land
& is thus well beyond normal territorial seas &
tripoints
& finally
i forgot to mention the matthew & hunter island group
which is sometimes considered part of new caledonia
tho it lies several degrees farther east of the
loyalty islands
& is at least claimed by france
even if mostly considered to be vanuatu since 1982
so technically
extremest possible fre might still turn out to be on
hunter island
in 172 east longitude
or rather even somewhere in the seas east of there
depending on whether & how these conflicting claims
are ever resolved
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