Subject: Re: clavoscopy of everyones land advances<br/>
Date: Dec 02, 2001 @ 15:13<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1174569914">Michael:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; now my maps are primitive as usual but there does appear to be at<br/>
 </span></blockquote>least one place in the world where the antarctic & maritime regimes<br/>
are in conflict  so it will make at least a good research & test case<br/>
 & this is an island or group of unknown name & probably argentine or<br/>
chilean ownership in drake passage at about long w70 & lat s58  or in<br/>
other words only about 120nm north of lat s60<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;ve read a fair bit around the topic of sub-Antarctic islands, and<br/>
I&#39;ve never heard of these, or seen them on a map. And they&#39;re not in<br/>
the right place to be a last dyng echo of the great &quot;lost&quot; islands of<br/>
the region, Macy and Swain and the Auroras. Are you looking at some<br/>
indication of the Sars Seamount, which sits almost exactly on this<br/>
spot, albeit 218m down?<br/>
But a while back, in some posting or other, I think I did wonder aloud<br/>
(atext?) about whether I should be clipping off the southern extension<br/>
of the South Sandwich Islands&#39; EEZ. I hunted down some information<br/>
about the Antarctic Treaty at that time, and I think I gathered from<br/>
it that it prohibited the creation of maritime zones based on<br/>
territorial claims south of 60S - which seemed to leave open the<br/>
possibility of maritime zones based on claims *north* of 60S. So I<br/>
left the SSI EEZ intact on my map. But all this is now just a vague<br/>
impression, and I&#39;d be glad to hear from anyone who can give chapter<br/>
and verse.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>