On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Stimpy wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:42:46 +0000, Tom Anderson wrote

IIRC the catch is that Rockall has in law a territorial sea of its own
but it is too isolated from the next bit of sovereign territory to act
as an extension to that territory.

Yes. If the UK were to declare itself an archipelagic state, it could draw
its baseline round the outside of all its various islands, including
islands such as Rockall - it doesn't matter that it's uninhabited
(Jamaica's done this).

Jamaica's claiming Rockall?? :-)

Doh! Some particularly careless phrasing on my part there.

tom

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