Subject: Re: Bonus bits of Everyone&#39;s Sea<br/>
Date: Dec 09, 2001 @ 04:46<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-971567923">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Grant Hutchison &lt;granthutchison@b...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I guess the high seas *have* pushed a bit shorewards<br/>
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&gt;  &gt; in Peru and Chile, though it feels odd to say that, given that the<br/>
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&gt;  &gt; relevant patches of high sea are offshore from Chile and Argentina!<br/>
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&gt; but grant please help me understand this too<br/>
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&gt; I&#39;ve attached a little sketch of the situation on the border between <br/>
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&gt; Peru and Chile. The 1952 treaty border is defined all the way out to <br/>
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&gt; 200nm, and it follows a line of latitude. This means it is 45 degrees or <br/>
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&gt;   so away from being perpendicular to the point of inflection of a very <br/>
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&gt; concave coast. So the outer limit of Peru&#39;s EEZ hits the border line at <br/>
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&gt; a point very different from the juncture with Chile&#39;s EEZ. South of the <br/>
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&gt; border there is sea theoretically claimable by Peru because it is less <br/>
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&gt; than 200nm from Peru&#39;s coast, but unclaimable by the terms of the treaty <br/>
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&gt; which limits Peru&#39;s claims to sea that is north of the limiting latitude.<br/>
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&gt; A similar situation prevails in the islands at the southern tip of South <br/>
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&gt; America, where a treaty line is drawn that isn&#39;t equidistant from <br/>
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&gt; Chilean and Argentinian land - here, Chile loses out.<br/>
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&gt; As you say, the line-of-latitude maritime boundary between Peru and <br/>
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&gt; Ecuador is bound to have a similar effect, but much smaller<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>grant <br/>
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thank you very much indeed for demonstrating these cool cooddities<br/>
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& i think all their 12nm lines also must take a similar jog <br/>
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tho in that case the gap is filled in the diagrammed example at least by chilean eez<br/>
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but it is also good to focus on any or all of the 3 peculiarities because they do so effectively dismember the otherwise predictable binational quadpts you find so negligible into even more ignorable tripoint pairs yet without at all displacing or otherwise disturbing the underlying everyonese tripoints<br/>
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this special behavior of these boundaries makes me want to complete our already well begun roster of them & more especially so because i cant think of any other examples of their type in the world than just these very strange 3 in a row we are looking at here<br/>
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