2011/2/14 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>: > I agree that there is also some rubbish, e.g. this: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/50899241 > > nobody can rightfully claim its "territory" (=admin_level 2) to be > extended by 200 nautic miles, and also the linked wikipedia article > doesn't imply this. Also it doesn't seem that the baseline was used to > calculate this border.
Well, in this case also the CIA factbook confirms the Liberian Claim for the 200 nautic miles: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2106.html Their claim seems to be contradicting the UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) treaty though (cited from the CIA): "territorial sea - the sovereignty of a coastal state extends beyond its land territory and internal waters to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea in the UNCLOS (Part II); this sovereignty extends to the air space over the territorial sea as well as its underlying seabed and subsoil; every state has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles; the normal baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the mean low-water line along the coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal state; the UNCLOS describes specific rules for archipelagic states." cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
