Subject: Re: clavoscopy of everyones land advances<br/>
Date: Aug 15, 2001 @ 22:07<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1413588061">Michael: <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; do these holes appear to be shaping up & amounting to another golf <br/>
 </span></blockquote>course or <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; anything at this point<br/>
 </span></blockquote>You&#39;ll remember we got into an unresolved debate about the precise <br/>
maritime claims of the French in the Southern and Antarctic Lands. <br/>
For the sake of moving forward on Everyone&#39;s Land, I think the <br/>
Principle of Maximum Greed I used to draw the global maps is useful - <br/>
if we assume that everyone will somehow and eventually claim all the <br/>
ocean surface they can get their hands on, then we can map what <br/>
remains outside the UN terms, and this is most definitely Everyone&#39;s <br/>
Land. So the following is the list of 19 (going on 20) island <br/>
enclaves that appear on the global EEZ views.<br/>
====================================================<br/>
Atlantic Ocean:<br/>
1. Ascension (UK)<br/>
2. Azores (Portugal)<br/>
3. Bermuda (UK)<br/>
4. Bouvet Island (Norway)<br/>
5. Saint Helena (UK)<br/>
6. Shag Rocks to South Sandwich Islands (UK)<br/>
7. Trindade & Martin Vaz Islands (Brazil)<br/>
8. Tristan da Cunha group (UK)<br/>
<br/>
Indian Ocean:<br/>
1. Amsterdam & Saint Paul Islands (France)<br/>
2. Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)<br/>
3. Crozet Islands (France) <br/>
4. Heard & McDonald Islands (Australia) and Kerguelen Islands (France)<br/>
5. Prince Edward Islands (South Africa)<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Pacific Ocean:<br/>
1. Clipperton Island (France)<br/>
2. Desventurados Islands: San Ambrosio, San Felix (Chile)<br/>
3. Easter & Sala y Gomez Islands (Chile)<br/>
4. Johnston Atoll (USA)<br/>
5. Midway to Hawaii (USA)<br/>
6. Minami-tori Island (Japan)<br/>
<br/>
Note:<br/>
The Kermadec Islands (New Zealand) are connected to the general <br/>
E.E.Z. only by two dubious claims: L&#39;Esperance Rock and South Minerva <br/>
Reef, and therefore form a seventh potential Pacific island enclave.<br/>
==========================================<br/>
<br/>
If we gain the Kermadecs, we lose the South Fiji Basin, which would <br/>
be opened to the high seas by the formation of the Kermadecs EEZ <br/>
island. We could also lose the South Fiji Basin *without* gaining the <br/>
Kermadecs, if only one or the other of the dodgy EEZ claims <br/>
connecting it to the EEZ &quot;mainland&quot; were disallowed.<br/>
<br/>
I think we can be pretty sure that there are no second-order EEZ <br/>
enclaves - all of the islands listed above are adrift on the general <br/>
high seas, and none of the ocean enclaves are large enough to contain <br/>
a 200nm EEZ, with the exception of the Arctic, which has no central <br/>
islands, rocks or reefs to raise doubt.<br/>
(I&#39;ll upload this list as a Word document to the files area, to <br/>
complement the ocean enclave list and the maps already there.)<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>