evidence: - O’Connell, supra note 37, p. 197. The King of Tonga personally visited the Minerva Reefs together with ministers and other personnel, and officially declared Tonga’s sovereignty over all islands, rocks, reefs, and water areas within a radius of 12 nautical miles from these two reefs, which are within the Kingdom of Tonga’s fishery area. S. Menefee, "‘Republics of the Reefs:’ Nation-Building on the Continental Shelf and in the World’s Oceans," California Western International Law Journal, vol. 25 (1994), p. 100. Tonga subsequently set an EEZ surrounding "the territorial sea of Tonga" of 200 nautical miles from the baseline. The Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act, Act No. 30 of 23 October 1978, as amended by Act No. 19 of 1989. http://www.un.org/Septs/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TON_1989_Act.pdf, accessed February 16, 2007.