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Further Claims to Areas Beneath the High Seas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Richard Young
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , October 1949 , pp. 790 - 792
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1949

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References

1 See the writer’s article on “Recent Developments with Respect to the Continental Shelf,” in this Journal, Vol. 42 (1948), p. 849.

2 Bahamas (Alteration of Boundaries) Order in Council, 1948 (Statutory Instrument No. 2574) ; Jamaica (Alteration of Boundaries) Order in Council, 1948 (Statutory Instrument No. 2575). The dependencies of Jamaica, to which reference is made in the Order, are the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Morant and Pedro Cays.

3 In 1945 a Bahamas statute made provision for the granting of oil licenses and leases in submarine areas which are defined only as lands “underlying the sea waters below high water mark.” Petroleum Act, 1945, Laws of the Bahamas, 1945, No. 1. It is understood that under this Act licenses and leases were granted with respect to areas extending well beyond territorial waters. In Jamaica, the Petroleum (Production) Law, 1940, as amended in 1941, provided generally for licenses and leases, but made no specific reference to areas offshore. Laws of Jamaica, 1940, No. 26; 1941, No. 16.

4 “Saudi Arabian Offshore Legislation,” in this Journal, Vol. 43 (1949), p. 530; for text of legislation see ibid., Supp., pp. 154, 156.

5 The text of this instrument, as translated from the original Arabic by Mr. Homer Mueller, is printed in the Supplement to this Journal, infra, p. 185.

6 Kuwait, June 12, 1949. The Trueial Sheikhdoms: Abu Dhabi, June 10, 1949; Dubai, June 14, 1949 ; Sharjah, June 16, 1949 ; Ajman, June 20, 1949 ; Umm al Qaiwain, June 20, 1949 ; Eas al Khaimah, date not given. Kalba, although politically one of the Trueial Sheikhdoms, lies on the Gulf of Oman, and hence is not immediately concerned with the offshore problem in the Persian Gulf.