Subject: Re: Bering sea<br/>
Date: Jul 31, 2002 @ 17:14<br/>
Author: granthutchison (&quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1988896588">Peter:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; A nice map of the &quot;Donut hole&quot; (the high seas exclave in the Bering<br/>
&gt; sea) can be seen at<br/>
&gt; <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> .<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I think this map shows only the US borders, and not the whole hole.<br/>
The line marked USSR/USA is the line of the 1867 treaty, drawn up <br/>
before 200nm limits - this is the line that cuts across the donut <br/>
hole when all the 200nm limits are plotted. The US would like to use <br/>
it to delimit its continental shelf claims (which can extend beyond <br/>
the 200nm EEZ) - not surprising, because the treaty line is well west <br/>
of the median line in this area. Russia, again not surprisingly, <br/>
contests this.<br/>
So what&#39;s shown on this chart is the US 200nm limit on three sides <br/>
(N, E, S) of the Bering Sea, and the old Russia/US treaty line on the <br/>
W side, with no indication of the Russian EEZ and the bit of the <br/>
donut hole that lies farther west than the treaty line.<br/>
Hence the oddness of the labelling at the apparent west side of the <br/>
donut hole, and the absence of a boundary traversing the part of the <br/>
hole that is plotted.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>