Subject: Re: virgin country<br/>
Date: Aug 01, 2001 @ 13:42<br/>
Author: Martin Pratt (&quot;Martin Pratt&quot; &lt;m.a.pratt@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-882445445">Actually, the UK never claimed an EEZ around Rockall, since it only<br/>
claims an Exclusive Fishing Zone rather than a full EEZ around the<br/>
British Isles. But yes, the UK redrew its fishery zone limits in July<br/>
1997 when it ratified the Law of the Sea Convention, to the considerable<br/>
consternation of some Scottish fishermen! Rockall still has its 12 nm<br/>
territorial sea, but the British 200 nm limit is now measured from St<br/>
Kilda, 150 nm or so to the east. The UK still claims rights over the<br/>
continental shelf well to the west of Rockall but this claim is based on<br/>
the &#39;natural prolongation&#39; of the mainland territory, not on the basis<br/>
of sovereignty over Rockall.<br/>
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For those of you who are interested in this kind of thing, a report I<br/>
wrote for Greenpeace in 1996 (ie before the UK pulled back its fishery<br/>
zone claim) on the various overlapping jurisdictional claims in the<br/>
vicinity of the Rockall Plateau  is available on the web at<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gpuk.org/atlantic/politics/f_report.html">http://www.gpuk.org/atlantic/politics/f_report.html</a><br/>
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m a r t i n<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; Message: 8<br/>
&gt;    Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:55:09 -0000<br/>
&gt;    From: &quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:granthutchison@...">granthutchison@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt; Subject: Re: virgin country<br/>
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&gt; &gt; To date, only the UK has<br/>
&gt; &gt; formally conceded that one of its insular features is a legal rock<br/>
&gt; &gt; rather than a full-blown island, namely Rockall.<br/>
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&gt; Does that mean that the U.K. no longer claims an EEZ around Rockall?<br/>
&gt; Or are they holding out on the basis of its &quot;habitability&quot;<br/>
&gt; and &quot;economic life&quot;? (The map at www.maritimeboundaries.com shows an<br/>
&gt; EEZ around Rockall, but it&#39;s a couple of years old.) </span></blockquote></div>