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Case history; Prior: On appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky: Holding; Where a river is said to be the boundary between two states, the boundary properly extended to the low water mark of the opposite shore and no higher; plaintiff's motion of ejectment based on title granted by the state of Kentucky was denied.
The court specified the initial boundary point (Point "A") at the northern end of Dixon Entrance [4] and Point "B" 72 nautical miles (83 mi; 133 km) to the east. [5] Canada relies on the "A-B" Line as rendering nearly all of Dixon Entrance as Canadian internal waters.
The two separate water areas in dispute amount to about 51.5 km 2 (19.9 sq mi). [3] Yukon–Alaska dispute, Beaufort Sea (Alaska and Yukon) Canada supports an extension into the sea of the land boundary between Yukon and Alaska. The U.S. does not but instead supports a line equidistant concerning the coastline.
Alaska boundary dispute United States Canada: 1821 1903 Disputed between the United States and Canada (then a British Dominion with its foreign affairs controlled from London). The dispute had been going on between the Russian and British Empires since 1821, and was inherited by the United States as a consequence of the Alaska Purchase in 1867 ...
The Oregon Country/Columbia District stretched from 42°N to 54°40′N. The most heavily disputed portion is highlighted. The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.
What "Portland Channel" meant, and how to draw the boundary line through it. Four islands were in dispute. The definition of the line from "the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island to Portland Channel", which depended on the answer to the previous question. The line from Portland Channel to the 56th parallel north.
The conflicting grants led to a long-running border dispute between Maryland and Virginia. [6] The two states settled navigational and riparian water rights in a compact in 1785, but the boundary dispute continued. [7] [8] [9] Maryland entered into a separate dispute with Virginia regarding the placement of its true southern boundary in the west.
“The boundary would begin at the northwestern corner of Greenwich, proceed along a line eight miles north of and parallel to the Long Island Sound, then turn due north, extending to Massachusett's southern line.” [13] In respect of the 1664 oral agreement, because Greenwich and Stamford were less than 20 miles from the Hudson the line was ...