Japan planting coral to expand territorial claim

Ryanqk · 06/17/2007, 01:08 AM

This is an interesting news artical, apparently Japan is trying to expand its claim to a area of sea to its south by planting coral colonies to expand the size of a "rocky outcrop". This allows them to claim them as islands and exploit the area around 250km around them for economic purposes....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6758271.stm
Ryan

frederickk · 06/17/2007, 08:37 AM

interesting

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06/17/2007, 08:37 AM	#2
frederickk Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2,712	interesting