Subject: Re: East Timorese exclave<br/>
Date: Oct 19, 2001 @ 18:23<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1312728325">I believe it was in 1907 (I have copied the border treaty, but I <br/>
can&#39;t find it now), that the Netherlands and Portugal concluded the <br/>
border treaty here. As I recall, there were some enclaves, and the <br/>
two countries decided to do away with them. Occusi-Ambeno remained, <br/>
precisely because it was NOT considered to be an enclave (because it <br/>
was on the coast). If territorial seas and all the rest of it had <br/>
been an issue back then, this international anomaly possibly never <br/>
would have lived to this day.<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;ll look up the treaty for you in the next days.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., granthutchison@c... wrote:<br/>
&gt; See<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/timoreg.pdf">http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/timoreg.pdf</a><br/>
&gt; for a nice map of East Timor (currently a &quot;UN dependency&quot; but I <br/>
think quite soon to be country number 193 on our list), including the <br/>
detached fragment of Ambeno.<br/>
&gt; I don&#39;t know if/how maritime claims in this area pan out, but it <br/>
seems to me that Ambeno + territorial waters will end up as an East <br/>
Timorese exclave within the larger mass of Indonesian land and sea.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Grant </span></blockquote></div>