Subject: Re: Kerguelen and McDonald/Heard _do_ border, EEZ-wise!<br/>
Date: Aug 17, 2001 @ 22:38<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-596274815">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@c...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; The rectangle surrounding Svalbard dates from 1920, when Norway was <br/>
&gt; assigned &quot;full sovereignty&quot; over all islands &quot;great or small and <br/>
&gt; rocks appertaining thereto&quot; between meridians 10 to 35 east and <br/>
&gt; parallels 74 to 81 north. An improbable 49 states, including <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Russia, <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; have now signed up to this – the reason being that the treaty <br/>
 </span></blockquote>allows <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; signatories to hunt and fish within that area, as well as promising <br/>
&gt; equality of access for mining and industry (shudder). <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Yes, the Dutch are part of this as well. As a matter of fact, we <br/>
started industry at Spitsbergen, in the early 17th century <br/>
(Smeerenburg whale blubber plants on Amsterdam island, just off the <br/>
N.W. coast of West Spitsbergen). Apart from that, we used to have a <br/>
coal mine on West Spitsbergen. The Russians still do.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I didn&#39;t know about a Seychelles rectangle. Do you maybe mean the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>one <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; around the Maldives? <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Of course, a case of my typing being faster than my checking again. <br/>
Let me put in a sorry here for the next 50 blunders to go...<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>