Subject: Bering sea<br/>
Date: Jul 31, 2002 @ 13:20<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-639938382">A nice map of the &quot;Donut hole&quot; (the high seas exclave in the Bering<br/>
sea) can be seen at<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/images/charts/513_1.gif">http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/images/charts/513_1.gif</a> . Some<br/>
questions:<br/>
1. What is the status of the so-called &quot;Eastern Special Area&quot; to the<br/>
north of the Donut Hole? It refers to a note, but because of the low<br/>
resolution of the scan I can&#39;t read the note very well. It looks like<br/>
that by applying the 200 nm-rule, this area would be part of the<br/>
Russian EEZ, but because it is on the US side of the US-Russian<br/>
boundary, it now is part of the US EEZ. But I&#39;m not sure..<br/>
2. On some maps, the US-Russian boundary goes straight through the<br/>
Donut hole, which I find rather strange since it doesn&#39;t make any sense<br/>
to have an international boundary running through high seas. On this<br/>
map, however, this is not the case, but the US-Russian boundary is not<br/>
a straight line either (which I thought it was). It looks like that in<br/>
the area of the &quot;Eastern Special Area&quot; Russia has been compensated for<br/>
its initial loss. But I&#39;m not sure whether the parts of the boundary to<br/>
the north and south of it are on the same line.<br/>
3. The fact that the US-Russian boundary, where it adjoins the Donut<br/>
Hole, is marked as such (i.e. as the US-Russian boundary) on this map<br/>
puzzles me. Why should the Donut hole be American??<br/>
4. I remember reading somewhere (I can&#39;t remember where now) that there<br/>
was a dispute over the US-Russian border, focussed on the discussion<br/>
whether this line was a rhumb line, or a great circle arc. The<br/>
difference was quite big. Does anyone know of the outcome of this<br/>
dispute?<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
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