Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Green Island / Ile Verte (St.Pierre-Miquelon NFLD) cafr<br/>
Date: Jul 11, 2006 @ 20:02<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;lgm@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-515815586">Xavier asked:<br/>
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3. Does &quot;island&quot; in the 1972-official Agreement (&quot;île&quot;, in the<br/>
official French version of that Agreement) deal with any rock, or<br/>
only with real island? I mean, could we consider that the rocks in<br/>
the area of Little Green Island are real islands themselves, or only<br/>
rocks?<br/>
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Rocks that are dry at normal high tide are generally considered subject <br/>
to claim as territory, and they do generate territorial sea.  Drying <br/>
rocks and low-tide elevations (those rocks and areas of the sea floor <br/>
that are sometimes flooded and sometimes dry) are uninhabitable, so <br/>
therefore are not considered territory.  They do, however, generate <br/>
territorial sea of their own if they themselves are within territorial <br/>
sea generated by permanently dry land; but they do not otherwise.<br/>
<br/>
        &quot;I am a rock, I am an island.&quot;<br/>
                    --Simon and Garfunkel<br/>
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Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>