Australia–France Marine Delimitation Agreement
| Agreement on Marine Delimitation between the Government of Australia and the Government of the French Republic | |
|---|---|
| Type | Victoria, Australia |
| Effective | 10 January 1983 |
| Parties | |
| Languages | English; French |
The Australia–France Marine Delimitation Agreement is a 1982
The treaty was signed in
Matthew and Hunter Islands, a territory that is also claimed by Vanuatu. The northernmost point in the boundary is a tripoint with the Solomon Islands. The boundary runs in a roughly north–south direction and then turns and runs west–east until it almost reaches the 170th meridian east
.
The second boundary established by the treaty is that between
Kerguelen Island (France) in the southern Indian Ocean
. This boundary is also roughly equidistant and consists of seven straight-line segments defined by eight individual coordinate points.
The treaty came into force on 10 January 1983 after it was ratified by both states. The full name of the treaty is Agreement on Marine Delimitation between the Government of Australia and the Government of the French Republic.
Notes
- ^ Anderson, Ewan W. (2003). International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas, pp. 60–61, 64, p. 60, at Google Books; Charney, Jonathan I. et al. (1993). International Maritime Boundaries, Vol. 1, p. 905; Charney, (1998). Vol. 2, pp. 1185–1194., p. 1185, at Google Books
References
- Anderson, Ewan W. (2003). International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781579583750; OCLC 54061586
- ISBN 9789004144798; OCLC 23254092
External links
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