Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: More on Aves Island
Date: Sep 04, 2001 @ 18:55
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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>From: "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>_________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: More on Aves Island
>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:43:20 -0000
>
>Michael:
> > also grant
> > since you have this ability
> > may i have a free question
> >
> > doesnt the st martin frnl line produce an equidistance tripoint at
>under
> > 24nm from its near neighbor
>
>My map isn't fine enough to give a precise distance (I'm working from
>Prescott, of which/whom I'll try to produce a scan next week), but
>20nm or so seems right. Saints Martin and Bartholomew form a little
>exclave of the French exclave Gaudeloupe; bordered by Anguilla,
>Antigua & Barbuda, St Kitts & Nevis and (of course) the Netherlands
>Antilles. The tripoint with Anguilla is tight inshore, as you say.
>
>Hmmm. I've missed and unwittingly revisited several things in this
>group already. But nothing daunted ... do we have a name for an
>exclave *of* an exclave?
>No dry land examples, for sure, but at the EEZ level (what else?) the
>top of my head offers (in addition to the Gaudeloupe example above):
>Bassas da India + Ile Europa + Juan de Nova (Reunion [France]); Iles
>Glorieuses (Reunion [France]); Ile Clipperton (French Polynesia
>[France]); Ascension (St Helena [UK]); Tristan Group (St Helena [UK]).
>Ile Tromelin is also a Reunion dependency, but its EEZ merges with
>Reunion's.
>Do any other countries but Britain (definitely) and France (I think)
>acknowledge such sub-let dependencies?
>
>Grant
>