Subject: Re: An Indian Ocean high seas enclave<br/>
Date: Dec 10, 2001 @ 20:00<br/>
Author: granthutchison (&quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1172566555">Michael:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; grant another case of believe it or not i still cant get this <br/>
&gt;attachment <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Let me know your full e-mail address (rather then the clipped version<br/>
I can see in Yahoo), and I&#39;ll e-mail it to you.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; but it intrigues me & i would like both to see it & compare it to <br/>
&gt; prescott because i had a feeling at one point while i was on the road <br/>
&gt; missing things that you had actually exceeded or were on the brink of <br/>
&gt; exceeding his inventory & perhaps this was the moment right here<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I can&#39;t vouch for the small Indian Ocean enclave - it&#39;s too close to<br/>
my error limit. The larger one is shown by Prescott, but not discussed<br/>
in his text.<br/>
I list two high seas enclaves not shown by Prescott:<br/>
1) South Fiji Basin. Prescott doesn&#39;t show this because the claims<br/>
bounding it are sufficiently poor he doesn&#39;t map them.<br/>
2) Chatham Rise. Prescott plots the southern NZ enclave on his global<br/>
map, which I think is too small-scale to show the second NZ enclave.<br/>
For some reason he shows neither in his chapter on the South Pacific.<br/>
 <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; also can you describe what the cargados carajos might look like from<br/>
&gt; your admiralty chart<br/>
 </span></blockquote>The chart is dated 1846, with a revision history up to 1993. Cargados<br/>
Carajos is a crescentic coral reef with a chain of islands rising from<br/>
its southern end - one, Coco Island is marked &quot;a little water by<br/>
digging&quot; and another &quot;Trees (conspic)&quot; to the north and west of this<br/>
reef are several small islands, each only a couple of hundred metres<br/>
across: Albatross Island (&quot;Rep&#39;d to lie 6 cables further N&#39;ward.<br/>
H.M.S. Owen 1962&quot;); North Island; Siren Island; Pearl Island<br/>
(&quot;conspic. red roofs&quot;) and Frigate Island (&quot;A little water but brackish&quot;).<br/>
And in beautiful copperplate down the east side of the reef it reads:<br/>
&quot;This eastern coast was sketched by Lieutenant Mudge in 1825 by means<br/>
of boats which penetrated from the western side among the reefs; as no<br/>
vessel could venture to approach from the Seaward face.&quot;<br/>
I often look at the chart and think of Lieutenant Mudge, sweating over<br/>
his sketching paper, and the seamen pulling at the oars and then<br/>
resting, pulling and then resting, all through some breathless,<br/>
simmering, long-ago afternoon.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>