【古地图小岛不存在 墨西哥丢掉不少外海油藏】 2009/06/24 （法新社墨西哥市23日电） 一项研究报告论定，古代墨西哥湾地图上标出的不毛弹丸之 地贝尔梅哈（Bermeja）岛，其实并不存在。 少了80平方公里的一座岛屿也许看似小事，但墨西哥国立自治大学（National Autonomous Universityof Mexico）的这项研究却有较大的现实後果。 这表示，墨西哥在墨西哥湾所拥有的主权范围较先前的想像缩小，进而使其有权开采的能 源也减少。 国立自治大学的新闻稿指出，这项多学科调查结果确定，「所谓的贝尔梅哈岛根本不存在 ，也无法推论出其在座标上的确定位置」，而这是指古代墨西哥湾西部地图所画出的座标 。 墨西哥国会下院要求进行这项研究，以划定该国200海里经济活动区。 如今没有贝尔梅哈岛，墨西哥在海湾中最凸出的参考点是阿拉克兰斯（Alacranes）群岛 ，而这将使墨西哥在湾区的主权范围缩小，能开采的油藏也为之减少。（译者：中央社张 佑之） http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/090624/19/1lv92.html _____________________________________________________________________ Mexico vows to keep looking for 'lost' island By MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico vowed to keep looking for a mysterious island that could extend its offshore oil claims after university researchers said they couldn't find it. "The island doesn't exist" in the area where it was shown on maps, a National Autonomous University of Mexico study concluded after conducting studies with underwater sensing devices and aerial reconnaissance in the area. "Isla Bermeja" appeared on maps from the 1700s as a speck of land off the northwest coast of the Yucatan peninsula. A group of Mexican legislators hoped the island would help their decade-long effort to fend off what they describe as U.S. encroachment on their nation's oil claims in the Gulf of Mexico. Bermeja had been shown lying farther off Mexico's coast than other, confirmed islets, possibly extending the nation's claim by about 55 nautical miles into an area in the middle of the Gulf that lies between U.S. and Mexican territorial waters, said Elias Cardenas, the head of Mexico's congressional Maritime Committee. That area, which lies beyond both countries' 200-mile territorial limits, is believed to hold rich oil deposits under the sea floor. Cardenas said he hopes to explore other spots where the island might lie, and plans to ask for more funding for oceanographic studies to help solve the mystery. "There are four other possible sites where it might have been," Cardenas said, referring to versions the island might have sunk or been submerged. He said the matter was urgent because the two countries are expected to formalize an agreement on drilling rights in the area soon. "Right now, the big fight is for oil," he said. How an island could have been listed where none existed remains a mystery, though old maps often carried over inaccurate information from earlier charts. Mexican have long bounced around conspiracy theories about the affair. "There are some who say the United States bombed it," journalist Carlos Loret wrote in a column in El Universal newspaper. "Others say it was sunk by global warming, and others think it was an earthquake." Cardenas dismissed the bombing rumors as "fantasy." "That would have been something that would have been very noticeable," he said. http://tinyurl.com/l8qmoy --

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