In that case, unless the remark was made about the Channel Tunnel, I'm not
sure how France and England can share a border given the three mile limit.


Due to the rise in off-shore resources, that's been changed?

The original three miles was based on the range of cannon shot however
Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters
extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from the baseline
(usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. An exclusive
economic zone extends from the outer limit of the territorial sea to a
maximum of 200 nautical miles (370.4 km) from the territorial sea baseline,
thus it includes the contiguous zone.

Thanks to Wiki.


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Cheers.

Roger Traviss


Photos of the late HO scale GER: -

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For more photos not in the above album and kitbashes etc..:-
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