--- On Sun, 14/6/09, Darrin Smith <bel...@beldin.org> wrote: > The reason I chose to put in the (roughly estimated) 12nm > boundary was > that from the research I could find it's the *legal* > definition of the > extent of full australian territory, i.e. when you are > inside 12nm you > are in Australia and all laws apply - as is the case with > most > countries from what I could determine. The 200nm is to do > with resource > exploitation and full teritorial rights do not exist in > this area. The > other countries around where world where people have added > maratime > borders and been at the 12nm limit also from what I can > see.
I should have read up on it first I guess, but that's only partially true. Since UN based conferences in the 1960s various nations have signed up to various international treaties, that originally went from 3nm, to 6nm, to 12nm and now various countries have put in requests for recognition to 200nm, Australia being one of them. Exceptions in Australia's case exist where it meets territorial waters with PNG and they have agreements in places as to who owns what, and around several islands which only extend 3nm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters What I can't figure out is if these treaties have been ratified and Australia's submission for 200nm was/is accepted/valid, or what's going on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters#Submissions_with_recommendations _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
