I don't know if I quite agree with a state should be
called fragmented if everyone's sea intervenes. It's
almost the same as the Canadian islands that belong to
a province while the water itself belong to the
nation. They might technically be exclaves, but if we
take it as that, we lose the interesting oddities,
like Kilineq Island in Canada and Kure in Hawaii. And
yes, to me, the EEZ boundaries are just a bit more
interesting. Since the idea of boundaries are
man-made anyway, EEZ boundaries to me has about as
much validity as boundary as territorial sea. But
that's just me. By the way, Hawaii, I believe, is
fragmented due to Midway, if we take EEZs into
consideration.
It was my bad about Tarr inlet. I happened to took at
a not-so-detailed map and Tarr Inlet separated a
sizable portion of Alaska where Hyder is. But Hyder
itself is a much smaller tongue that branches from
that tongue. Yeah, that is not really that
interesting, but since many of us find Point Roberts
interesting, so is this.
Yes, Mike, all the small islands are far enough from
each other that their territorial sea does not
connect.
Those theoretical lines are allocational lines, and
yes, they are wacky. But rarely are they as wacky as
connecting Kure with rest of Hawaii. And since
territorial sea boundaries would make atlases
pretty-crazy looking, those are the boundaries we have
to go by.
Yes, there are many Oahu exclaves of Everyone's sea
and I believe you are right that all of them are
Hawaii exclaves. I am not sure all of the ones that
show up on the map are acceptable or not, as I am not
sure all of them approach sea level. I think the end
points of Oahu are the farthest among US counties.
Arif

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