lenaitch
Senior Member
Similar to discussions of anomalies with places like Pt. Roberts, Northwest Angle, nobody is going to cede anything. For whatever it's worth, St. P & M are an EU foot in the North American playground. It might look small but their EEZ is still about 12,000 sq km; not bad for 6000 people. A recognized presence has many different meanings these days than it did in the Age of Exploration. Maybe there's gas or oil down there.
I wasn't aware that the so-called Turbot War involved France; I thought it primarily involved Spain and Portugal, but it might have been tied in since it all happened in the early 1990s.
I wasn't aware that the so-called Turbot War involved France; I thought it primarily involved Spain and Portugal, but it might have been tied in since it all happened in the early 1990s.