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By 1888, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei in northern Borneo had become British protectorate. [101] The area in southern Borneo was made Dutch protectorate in 1891. [77] The Dutch who already claimed the whole Borneo were asked by Britain to delimit their boundaries between the two colonial territories to avoid further conflicts. [101]
Easternmost boundary marker on the Indonesian-Malaysia border on Sebatik Island. The territorial division of Borneo gained scant Dutch attention until the arrival of British soldier James Brooke in Sarawak in 1841, which the Dutch East Indies Government in Batavia sensed as a threat to their hegemonic position over Bornean coastal trade.
Brunei's maritime boundary with Malaysia until the 100 fathom isobath was inherited from the Sarawak (Definition of Boundaries) Order in Council 1958 No 1518 and the North Borneo (Definition of Boundaries) Order in Council 1958 No 1517, both of which defined the boundary between Brunei on the one hand, and Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia, on the ...
The Malaysia–Philippines border is a maritime boundary located in the South China, Sulu and Celebes Seas. It separates the Malaysian state of Sabah, which is on the island of Borneo, and the Sulu Islands of the southern Philippines. The boundary is the result of the division of the Sulu Sultanate through the cession of its territories to ...
Boundary between 21 and 22 determined by the 1995 Malaysia-Singapore border agreement Continental shelf border according to 1979 map, subject to negotiations with Indonesia and Singapore 22 1 17'.63 104 7'.5 This turning point is located near the eastern end of the boundary determined by the 1995 Malaysia-Singapore border agreement 23 104 2'.5
Eleven states and two federal territories are located on the Malay Peninsula, collectively called Peninsular Malaysia (Semenanjung Malaysia) or West Malaysia.Two states are on the island of Borneo, and the remaining federal territory consists of islands offshore of Borneo; they are collectively referred to as East Malaysia or Malaysian Borneo.
The boundary is separated into three segments, with the first two broken by the Timor Gap. The first is between the Australia – Indonesia – Papua New Guinea tripoint at 10° 50' S, 139° 12' E, and the point whether the territorial waters of the two countries touch the eastern limits of the territorial waters claimed by Timor-Leste at 9° 28' S, 127° 56' E.
Location map of Borneo in SE Asia. The Red River Fault is included in the map. The base of rocks that underlie Borneo, an island in Southeast Asia, was formed by the arc-continent collisions, continent–continent collisions and subduction–accretion due to convergence between the Asian, India–Australia, and Philippine Sea-Pacific plates over the last 400 million years. [1]