but regardless of whether or how the nationality of
the matthew & hunter group is ever finally resolved
there does appear to be one more island east of the
loyalty group that is of undisputed french & or new
caledonian nationality
named ile walpole & situated in 168 degrees & 57
minutes of east longitude
so its 12nm of territorial seas must extend france a
few minutes beyond the 169th meridian of east
longitude
even if it cant legally project an eez beyond that
as it is apparently just as uninhabited &
uninhabitable as matthew & hunter are
& tho this map does include all 3 of these islands
within the french eez
http://w2.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound/geointerface.php?Pol_ID=5
& shows it extending as far east as about 174 degrees
east longitude
with even a hypothetical fiji france vanuatu eez
tripoint
fjfrvu
it shouldnt necessarily be believed
--- aletheia kallos <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
> 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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