Nice and thanks for the info. Given the irregular
shape of shorelines, there might even be more than one
FRGB border segment. For instance - the distance
between the coastal baseline might be 23 nm at the
chunnel area; then moving west it might be 24.1 nm,
then further west and back to 23.9 nm, etc, even if
for short distances. I suppose this could cause many
tripoints of France, G.Britain, and everyone's water.
Too bad they are not marked.
--- acroorca2002 <
orc@...> wrote:
> by international law the territorial waters of
> countries may extend
> no farther than 12nm seaward from their coastal
> baselines
> which are the straight lines connecting the most
> seaward
> projections of their coasts &or offshore islands
>
> but there are many exceptional cases involving
> underclaims
> such as of 3nm or 6nm or 9nm etc
> depending on various factors
> like the desire of greece not to provoke turkey
> etc etc
> & there are a few exceptional cases of overclaims
> like canada & russia claiming all the way to the
> north pole
>
> but normally only normal claims & underclaims are
> generally
> recognized
>
> also there are cases of negotiated & adjudicated
> asymmetries
>
> but the general rule & the default reality is as you
> say 12nm
>
> in the case of the straits of dover
> as you also anticipate
> there must be a short reach of waters extending
> across the
> chunnel where the distance between the french &
> british coastal
> baselines is less than 24nm apart
> & this would produce a real frgb territorial waters
> boundary line
> based on equidistance if nothing else
> without there being any intervening everyones waters
>
> not only in that specific location but for several
> miles in both
> directions along the narrowest passage
>
> & it is presumably just such a line that is marked
> within the
> chunnel
>
> & since it is marked
> it must first have been delimited
> deliberately & exactly
> as well as explicitly agreed to
>
> so i would expect a treaty to this effect could be
> found
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Michael
> Kaufman
> <mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> > Ok, I have a general quetion. How far do
> territorial
> > waters extend? From my memory it was 12, wasn't
> it?
> > But I don't remember and couldn't find it in the
> > archives (I know I've seen it many times but
> couldn't
> > find it) so that is why I ask.
> >
> > If this is the case, and the underwater portion of
> the
> > Chunnel is 23 miles long, then I guess it could
> only
> > have been 1 mile longer before you had [everyone's
> > land]/FR and [ev. land]/GB borders. But do you
> think
> > they even knew about this? Can we be certain the
> FRGB
> > is really on the border - is there a treay?
> >
> > -Mike K.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- acroorca2002 <orc@o...> wrote:
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper
> > > Nielsen"
> > > <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.kittyempire.org/Detroit0300/tunnelflags.jpg
> > >
> >
>
http://www.windsorpubliclibrary.com/images/Museum/riversedge
> > > .jpg
> > >
> >
>
http://www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/pics/hollandtunnel.jpg
> > >
> http://www.youmustknow.com/graphics/pics/oct82.jpg
> > >
> >
>
http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/readingoctober2002.htm
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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