Subject: Re: virgin country<br/>
Date: Jul 30, 2001 @ 23:55<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1567458317">Michael:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; that is  if any guano rocks were available or habitable<br/>
&gt; & we have not heard of or from a one yet<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I don&#39;t think we can claim guano rocks for Everyone&#39;s Land. The UN <br/>
excludes rocks that cannot sustain habitation *or economic life of <br/>
their own* from use in a maritime claim (though I guess a country <br/>
could still claim the rock itself). Prescott says that a rock that <br/>
was regularly used to collect guano would qualify as having economic <br/>
activity sufficient for a maritime claim. Although lawyers could <br/>
argue profitably forever about that word &quot;regularly&quot;, it looks like a <br/>
guano rock might potentially carve a 200nm circle *out of* Everyone&#39;s <br/>
Land.<br/>
I presume this is the basis for Brazil&#39;s maritime claim around the <br/>
Peter and Paul Rocks, which are about as &quot;habitable&quot; as Rockall.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>