Subject: Re: Aves Is, Caribbean<br/>
Date: Aug 30, 2001 @ 16:50<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1210661399">The already mentioned Boudewijn Buch wrote a chapter in one of his <br/>
island books on Aves, and the dispute between the Netherlands and <br/>
Venezuela over this island. It is gradually disappearing. I wonder <br/>
whether Venezuela plans a Japanese/Icelandic sort of rescue operation?<br/>
<br/>
BTW: Aves island is not the same as the Aves Islands, as Buch points <br/>
out!<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; Posted today on int-boundaries:<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Aves Island (a sandbar) in the Caribbean Sea. Several states <br/>
concluded <br/>
&gt; bilateral maritime border agreements based on the idea that <br/>
this &quot;island&quot; <br/>
&gt; can produce an EEZ. In fact this &quot;island&quot;  is only inhabited by a <br/>
number of <br/>
&gt; Venezuelan soldiers (see attached picture of Aves and army <br/>
quarters). These <br/>
&gt; soldiers have to make an annual retreat to the mainland at the <br/>
beginning of <br/>
&gt; every hurricane-season because it becomes too dangerous to stay.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; BW<br/>
&gt; <br/>
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