Subject: Re: the elusive frgbnl et al
Date: Dec 07, 2001 @ 05:00
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "granthutchison" <granthutchison@b...> wrote:

> Peter:

> > 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



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

yet what equidistance dues do or would st pierre & miq have all the way over in cabot strait which is between canada & canada

& i also agree it would be & is silly or even crazy but i would think true

m