"JimB" wrote in message news:hNW6c.735$94.553@newsfe1-win...
Dick Locke wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:42:04 -0000, "JimB"
wrote:

So in all
the world except the Americas, the lateral system is green to
starboard entering harbour. In the Americas, of course . . .

Not just the Americas...Japan, Korea and the Philippines use
the IALA
"B" system. So does Tonga and I'm sure other places.

Sorry! I thought of these were part of the post WW2 American
empire?
JimB

Nah, we lost our major imperial posession in the Philippines in 1946...