--- 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.
According to a 2008 pdf put out by the aussie govt, the 12nm is still valid, but they've had a huge "land" grab on resources in the other areas and it has been ratified by the UN... http://minister.ret.gov.au/TheHonMartinFergusonMP/Documents/colour-cs-map-with-names3.pdf _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au