The topo maps should be here this week. I've still not heard from the IBC -- though they may not have any info about the border. Perhaps the Coast Guard might?

Also, if anyone has French language skills, perhaps an email to the SPM governing body and/or similar people back in France might answer our question.

Doug

----- Original Message -----

From: Peter Smaardijk

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 3:31 AM

Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: cafr

Still, what remains here is the fact that the turning point is on the coastline (at low tide) of an islet. Why would such a point have been chosen, and not, say, the centre of the islet or the highest point? In other words, the way it is sometimes done in Scandinavia. They could have done that, if the (maritime) boundary has no real meaning when it runs across land. It wouldn't have made any difference. Maybe the idea that some day this boundary running across dry land might become a source of doubt (like here at BP) was playing in the heads of the people who thought this up after all. When you take the central or highest point of an island, there is much more land to be in doubt over than there is in the actual situation. Or maybe, being a point of a maritime boundary, it should be wet by definition. And now it's wet, albeit only just. Attached a little scheme of how I think the situation is at both points we're talking about. Please tell me if I interpreted your conclusions wrong. Peter S. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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