Subject: Re: More holes in the world EEZ<br/>
Date: Dec 11, 2001 @ 02:18<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-750156370">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@b...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Michael:<br/>
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&gt; &gt; i have no idea about the paracels or scarboro reef but from this map<br/>
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&gt; &gt; & a more detailed one in prescott i surmise there may be as many as <br/>
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&gt; &gt; 33 spratly islands not only capable of habitation but in some cases <br/>
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&gt; &gt; actually occupied by nationals of various claimant countries<br/>
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&gt; Prescott doesn&#39;t give a high seas enclave here, presumably because<br/>
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&gt; it&#39;s going to end up tiled over *somehow* with various claims. The<br/>
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&gt; &quot;habitability&quot; aspect is hilarious, apparently sometimes involving<br/>
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&gt; Chinese soldiers standing knee-deep in seawater at high tide. But I<br/>
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&gt; think the stopper might be that some islands are subject to several<br/>
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&gt; claims, so it is going to be difficult to nail down even potential<br/>
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&gt; borders.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>i think it would be a stopper for prescott & other normal minded people but for committed mosaic finishers & others requiring best available truth even if it is crazy the actual occupation & use & thus possession of ground at any point in time by nationals of any of the claimant nations might become the basis for the desired even if ridiculous allocation of de facto territorial seas & probable eezs etc <br/>
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m</div>