Boundary Map

ID: 760 ~ Source: Dunbabin, John PD. "Haro or Rosario? Maps, Navigation, and the Anglo-American North-West Water Boundary Dispute, 1846-1872." BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 186 (2015): 39-72. (Image)
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Boundary Map

The water boundary claims of Great Britain and the United States.

This file appears in: Arbitration Explained

By Melissa Baker
In 1872 two colonial powers, Great Britain and the United States, peacefully agreed to end - through arbitration - the joint occupation of San Juan Island. Ambiguous language in the 1846 Treaty of Oregon, a boundary agreement between the two…