Subject: Re: clavoscopy of everyones land advances
Date: Dec 03, 2001 @ 07:46
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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> Michael:it or they are on the most recent 6 cia maps of antarctica at perry castaneda & could easily be a dead fly on the master map which no one has noticed or thought of removing but neednt detain us now that the south sandwiches can serve as our model
> > now my maps are primitive as usual but there does appear to be at
> least one place in the world where the antarctic & maritime regimes
> are in conflict so it will make at least a good research & test case
> & this is an island or group of unknown name & probably argentine or
> chilean ownership in drake passage at about long w70 & lat s58 or in
> other words only about 120nm north of lat s60
>
> I've read a fair bit around the topic of sub-Antarctic islands, and
> I've never heard of these, or seen them on a map.
> And they're not inbut that is even more interesting
> the right place to be a last dyng echo of the great "lost" islands of
> the region, Macy and Swain and the Auroras.
> Are you looking at someit looks like veridian agrees with you about this tho it is hard to see on their website map
> indication of the Sars Seamount, which sits almost exactly on this
> spot, albeit 218m down?
> But a while back, in some posting or other, I think I did wonder aloud
> (atext?) about whether I should be clipping off the southern extension
> of the South Sandwich Islands' EEZ. I hunted down some information
> about the Antarctic Treaty at that time, and I think I gathered from
> it that it prohibited the creation of maritime zones based on
> territorial claims south of 60S - which seemed to leave open the
> possibility of maritime zones based on claims *north* of 60S. So I
> left the SSI EEZ intact on my map.
> But all this is now just a vagueme too
> impression, and I'd be glad to hear from anyone who can give chapter
> and verse.