Subject: Re: border crossings and rules of road<br/>
Date: Jan 05, 2005 @ 10:16<br/>
Author: Martin Pratt (&quot;Martin Pratt&quot; &lt;m.a.pratt@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-781903384">Malaysia and Singapore signed a territorial sea boundary agreement <br/>
in 1995 which provided geographical coordinates for a boundary <br/>
originally established in 1927 as &quot;an imaginary line following the <br/>
centre of the deep-water channel in Johore Strait&quot;. The 1995 <br/>
agreement defines a boundary east and west of the causeway but <br/>
otherwise makes no mention of the causeway itself - which suggests <br/>
to me that the two governments treat the boundary on the causeway as <br/>
a (still to be defined?) land boundary. The nearest points on the <br/>
territorial sea boundary to the causeway are at: 01d 27&#39; 10.0&quot;N, <br/>
103d 46&#39; 16.0&quot;E to the east of the causeway; and 01d 27&#39; 09.8&quot;N, <br/>
103d 46&#39; 15.7&quot;E to the west of the causeway (coordinates refer to <br/>
the Revised Kertau Datum) - which, according to my rough <br/>
calculations, leaves a gap of approximately 11 metres.<br/>
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m a r t i n</div>