CIA says"Ireland claims faroe Islands?."

Paddy Samurai · 06-02-2009 11:15PM #1

I knew about rockall ,but i never knew we were claiming the faroes.Whats the story anyone know?.Found this report on the Ireland page of the C.I.A. website(https://www.cia.gov). Also the cia are concerned about our illegal drugs.
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Disputes - international:Ireland, Iceland, and the UK dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm

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CreepingDeath · 06-02-2009 11:19PM

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Disputes - international:Ireland, Iceland, and the UK dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm

That's probably to do with fishing rights 200 nm around the island.
Ireland aren't claiming the island itself.

pablomakaveli · 06-02-2009 11:20PM

I think thats refering to the ocean territories around the faroes.

If we had the island's themselves we could banish all the scumbags in the country to the faroes. then we could drop a big bomb on them.:cool:

Zaph · 06-02-2009 11:21PM

Disputes - international:Ireland, Iceland, and the UK dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm

That's not exactly the same as us claiming the Faroes, is it now?

It's all to do with oil and mineral rights. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea:

all coastal states are permitted to claim a shelf up to 200 miles in breadth, subject to the exercise of the same rights by their neighbours. States whose continental shelves naturally extend beyond this distance must establish their limits to the satisfaction of the UN Commission on the basis of scientific data. A coastal state exercises over its continental shelf the sovereign right to exploit its natural resources, including oil and gas deposits as well as other minerals and biological resources, located on or under the seabed

So basically if you can prove that the continental shelf that your land mass sits on extends beyond 200 miles you can expand the area for which you claim drilling rights.

Riddle101 · 06-02-2009 11:21PM

Hmm, i didn't know we claimed the Faroe Islands. But if the CIA say it then maybe we should keep it and use it for stockpiling out drugs:D

By the way if that's through about the 200nm, then why did Great Britain lay claim to the Falklands. Surely it belongs to Argentina:D

AlmightyCushion · 06-02-2009 11:22PM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

That's probably to do with fishing rights 200 nm around the island.
Ireland aren't claiming the island itself.

Why would we bother claiming that? 200 nanometres is nothing.

galwayrush · 06-02-2009 11:29PM

Woohoo, We're going to invade somewhere.
See if the Galway Alliance Against War can try and stop us.:D

Jim236 · 06-02-2009 11:30PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Why would we bother claiming that? 200 nanometres is nothing.

nm=nautical miles

Like someone said, this is to do with our rightful claim over rockall, not the Faroe Islands.

uberwolf · 06-02-2009 11:33PM

pablomakaveli wrote: »

If we had the island's themselves we could banish all the scumbags in the country to the faroes. then we could drop a big bomb on them.:cool:

that was the plan for Slane when Eminem was due to play

galwayrush · 06-02-2009 11:33PM

So, we're trying to claim the area for the Oil reserves we've probably given away for free already.:rolleyes:

stovelid · 06-02-2009 11:51PM

WTF are we bothering with the Faroes for? We should be looking to annex countries with decent football teams. The World Cup is just around he corner.

mike65 · 06-02-2009 11:53PM

Faroes beat Denmark once I think.

Senna · 07-02-2009 12:01AM

maybe we should be laying claim and invading other small countries, things are that bad here we could take anything descent they have, like toasters, washing machines and the odd bicycle . Just like the kid at school that was always bullied, but once in awhile would get the courage up to push around some even smaller kid, that could be us!

Davidius · 07-02-2009 12:04AM

Jim236 wrote: »

nm=nautical miles

No, nm = nanometre. It doesn't mean anything else!

GhostInTheRuins · 07-02-2009 12:07AM

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

I knew about rockall

I thought we didn't claim Rockall even though we should have because we're the closed to it.

Zaph · 07-02-2009 12:21AM

mike65 wrote: »

Faroes beat Denmark once I think.

They beat Austria 1-0 in their first ever competitive international. They also drew 1-1 with Austria in the current World Cup qualifying campaign.

mike65 · 07-02-2009 12:24AM

Ah I knew it was a light-middleweight sort of side.

Diabhal Beag · 07-02-2009 12:33AM

I would rate the Faroes as high as Beligium is they were playing well

CCCP^ · 07-02-2009 12:34AM

Who own's Rockall and what's it like there? Is there even anything growing on it?

Zaph · 07-02-2009 12:55AM

CCCP^ wrote: »

Who own's Rockall and what's it like there? Is there even anything growing on it?

This is Rockall

It's owned by the UK, although Ireland claimed it in the past on the basis that it's closer to the Irish mainland than it is to the UK mainland. According to Wikipedia it's about 83 feet wide, 100 feet long and 70 feet high, and is 300km from the next nearest land of any sort, some Scottish island.

thusspakeblixa · 07-02-2009 12:59AM

The CIA seem to have confused the Faroes with the Rockall shelf
:rolleyes:
Let's invade the Faroes anyway, I hear there's a lovely puffin sanctuary near Torshavn.

Robbo · 07-02-2009 01:28AM

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

I thought we didn't claim Rockall even though we should have because we're the closed to it.

Of course we've claimed Rockall. The Continuity Wolfe Tones even wrote a considered and diplomatically sound song about it. Very popular with the Scottish football chaps it is.

badabinbadaboom · 07-02-2009 01:35AM

**** it, lets just invade Iceland while the bastards are on their knees, they probably still have free energy the ****ers.
Death to the Icelandic people!!
Let our armies march(swim) North and lay waste to the apocalyptic terror that is the Icelandic people!!
We must defend ourselves!!!

minidazzler · 07-02-2009 01:37AM

Riddle101 wrote: »

Hmm, i didn't know we claimed the Faroe Islands. But if the CIA say it then maybe we should keep it and use it for stockpiling out drugs:D

By the way if that's through about the 200nm, then why did Great Britain lay claim to the Falklands. Surely it belongs to Argentina:D

The Falklands was part of the British Empire, totally different Kettle of Fish, What happened there is the Argentinians invaded thinking the Brits would do nothing, the brits called their Bluff, went and took back the Falklands, the lads they were up against weren't that good, they were only there because the Argentinians didn't believe the Brits would attack, The Brits did though.

Paddy Samurai · 07-02-2009 01:44AM

Zaph wrote: »

That's not exactly the same as us claiming the Faroes, is it now?

Well spotted,fair play.Its just i never expected anyone to be so clear headed (sober) on a friday night!. Hic!.

stovelid · 07-02-2009 09:57AM

mike65 wrote: »

Ah I knew it was a light-middleweight sort of side.

Sadly not enough to risk an invasion for.

Victor · 07-02-2009 11:37PM

Map from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall

The argument revolves around whether the Faroe's continental shelf and therefore EEZ extends beyond the point "A" on the attached map.

Victor · 09-03-2009 11:45PM

Sorry for dragging this up again:

http://www.utanrikisraduneyti.is/media/Frettamyndir/landgrunnsk_hatton_rockall.jpg

Claims:
Iceland - red
Ireland - yellow
UK - green
Denmark / Faroes - pink

The attached map should ahve been with the previous post.

K-9 · 09-03-2009 11:53PM

Does that relate to Rockall?

Is it the the small triangle part were the boundaries of all the countries don't extend to, it's between Scotland and Iceland?

Always wondered why the Orkneys are British but the Faroes are Danish? They aren't that far apart.

mike65 · 09-03-2009 11:57PM

The Orkneys are only 10 miles off Scotland, the Shetlands are practially Nordic though.

Biggins · 10-03-2009 12:00AM

galwayrush wrote: »

Woohoo, We're going to invade somewhere.
See if the Galway Alliance Against War can try and stop us.:D

Typical! Could we not pick somewhere warm instead! Like Jamaica? :pac:

CIA says"Ireland claims faroe Islands?."

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