Subject: Re: Egypt/Jordan maritime border?<br/>
Date: Oct 22, 2001 @ 15:14<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-771521383">Anton:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt; Does anyone know whether Jordan and Egypt abut in the Red Sea? <br/>
&gt; I&#39;d say yes<br/>
 </span></blockquote>So would I, now. I&#39;ve just dug out a better map, and it&#39;s difficult <br/>
to see how a line of equidistance between Israel and Egypt could <br/>
feasibly skew far enough south.<br/>
In reply to Michael&#39;s point about absent treaties, I&#39;m wading on <br/>
regardless with my EEZ boundary survey based on the Principle of <br/>
Maximum Greed, and using equidistance lines if a treaty doesn&#39;t <br/>
exist. In this case I think I&#39;m reasonably future-proof, since the <br/>
critical balance is between Egypt+Jordan and Israel. I can&#39;t see <br/>
Egypt+Jordan accepting any treaty that would allow Israeli waters to <br/>
edge farther south than equidistance, or the Israelis accepting <br/>
anything that would push them farther north. And there are no awkward <br/>
offshore islands/rocks to muddy the issue.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>