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To: proud_yank

"Two, "International Waters" are defined as two nautical miles from the shore, and the NW Passage is wider than that."

Canada's "Territorial Waters" are defined as extending 200 miles from Canadian Territory. The North West passage is bounded on both sides by Canadian territory. So the Passage is an inland channel or straight. Is not an international waterway.

I don't where you got the 2 mile definition. Are you saying all waters 2 miles off the coast of the US are international waters?


46 posted on 01/26/2006 5:26:52 PM PST by beaver fever
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To: beaver fever

200 miles has to do with a country's exclusive economic zone, it has nothing to do with territorial seas when it comes to a right of passage.


53 posted on 01/26/2006 5:35:45 PM PST by NavVet (“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
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