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The Canada/France sea border is strange.
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Quilotoa lemmy.ca Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-04-01
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TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-26
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Wikipedia

The zone that was awarded to France was unusual and in two parts: first, the boundary was set at an equidistant line between the French islands and the Canadian island of Newfoundland. Added to this was a 24 nautical mile bulge on the west of the islands. Lastly, a long north–south 188-nautical-mile (348 km) corridor south of the islands was awarded to France, presumably to allow France access to its EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) from international waters without having to pass through the Canadian EEZ.
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CapuccinoCoretto lemmy.world CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-24
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My guess is the strip grants grand banks fishing rights proportional to the size of the island, without being a big land grab.

Plus Canadian professional cartographers know how to party. They have more active bans on pub crawls on Water street than anyone but the Chemists.
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AeronMelon lemmy.world aeronmelon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-26
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“Don’t you dare try passing to the south of us, ya shifty Canooks.”
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Sylvartas lemmy.dbzer0.com Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-11
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TrackinDaKraken wrote:
Wikipedia The zone that was awarded to France was unusual and in two parts: first, the boundary was set at an equidistant line between the French islands and the Canadian island of Newfoundland. Added to this was a 24 nautical mile bulge on the west of the islands. Lastly, a long north–south 188-nautical-mile (348 km) corridor south of the islands was awarded to France, presumably to allow Fran...

I also guessed EEZ access shenanigans !
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e8CArkcAuLE piefed.social e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-12
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

Also the longest border on solid land that France shares with another country is with…

Brazil!

so Canada and Brazil both share the same neighbour.
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