Subject: Re: clavoscopy of everyones land advances
Date: Dec 03, 2001 @ 07:46
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@b...> wrote:

> Michael:

> > 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.



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



> And they're not in

> the right place to be a last dyng echo of the great "lost" islands of

> the region, Macy and Swain and the Auroras.



but that is even more interesting



can you give us the skinny on these



> Are you looking at some

> 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.



it looks like veridian agrees with you about this tho it is hard to see on their website map



> But all this is now just a vague

> impression, and I'd be glad to hear from anyone who can give chapter

> and verse.



me too

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