Subject: Re: the elusive frgbnl et al
Date: Dec 07, 2001 @ 05:00
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> Peter:i agree the shape of peters stp&m map & several others i have seen always make this eez look so odd that it almost has to have been negotiated or rationalized in some weird way
> > Although
> > it would be silly to give France a 200 nm long corridor, at the end
> > of which it _still_ doesn't reach high seas. But this _is_ the
> > www.maritimeboundaries.com situation!
>
> Surely a corridor has to have *something* at the other end? Otherwise
> it would be a "tongue".
> The St P&M area shown on www.maritimeboundaries.com looks like a
> sliver taken from the equidistance solution given by Prescott -
> denying St P&M its equidistance dues in the Cabot Strait, but still
> pinching it off into a triangle by virtue of the concave Newfoundland
> coast behind it.
>
> Grant