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Statutory Instruments
SOUTH ATLANTIC TERRITORIES
Made
1st November 1989
Coming into force
1st January 1990
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 1st day of November 1989
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon Her by the Colonial Boundaries Act 1895(1) and all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1. This Order may be cited as the Falkland Islands (Territorial Sea) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.
2. The boundaries of the Colony of the Falkland Islands are hereby extended to include, as territorial Sea, that part of the sea which is situated within 12 nautical miles measured from the baselines as established by article 3 of this Order, together with the seabed of the territorial sea and its subsoil.
3.-(1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (2) to (4) of this article, the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Falkland Islands is measured shall be the low-water line along the coast of all islands comprised in the Colony of the Falkland Islands.
(2) For the purposes of this article a low-tide elevation which lies wholly or partly within the breadth of sea which would be territorial sea if all low-tide elevations were disregarded for the purpose of the measurement of the breadth thereof and if paragraphs (3) and (4) of this article were omitted shall be treated as an island.
(3) The baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured between Cape Carysfort (East Falkland), Cape Percival (West Falkland) and MacBride Head (East Falkland) shall consist of the series of loxodromes drawn so as to join successively, in the order in which they are there set out, the points identified by the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude in the first column of the Schedule to this Order, each being a point situate on the low-water line on or adjacent to the feature named in the second column of that Schedule opposite to the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude of the point in the first column.
(4) The provisions of paragraph (3) of this article shall be without prejudice to the operation of paragraph (2) of this article in relation to any island or low-tide elevation which for the purposes of that paragraph is treated as if it were an island, being an island or low-tide elevation which lies to seaward of the baseline specified in paragraph (3) of this article.
4. In this Order-
(a)"island" means a naturally formed area of land surrounded by water which is above water at mean high-water spring tides;
(b)"low-tide elevation" means a naturally formed area of drying land surrounded by water which is below water at mean high-water spring tides; and
(c)"nautical miles" means international nautical miles of 1,852 metres.
G I de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 3
| Co-ordinates of latitude and longitude of Point | Name of Feature | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Latitude South | Longitude West | ||
| 1. | 51°24 min 49 sec | 57°50 min 52 sec | Cape Carysfort |
| 2. | 51°30 min 38 sec | 57°44 min 11 sec | Volunteer Point |
| 3. | 51°40 min 34 sec | 57°41 min 00 sec | Seal Rocks |
| 4. | 51°43 min 41 sec | 57°44 min 22 sec | Wolf Rock |
| 5. | 52°05 min 51 sec | 58°24 min 36 sec | Prong Point |
| 6. | 52°27 min 00 sec | 58°53 min 33 sec | East Sea Lion Island |
| 7. | 52°26 min 53 sec | 59°07 min 16 sec | West Sea Lion Island |
| 8. | 52°23 min 48 sec | 59°43 min 25 sec | Barren Island |
| 9. | 52°15 min 33 sec | 60°38 min 52 sec | Cape Meredith |
| 10. | 52°10 min 11 sec | 60°56 min 07 sec | Bird Island |
| 11. | 51°50 min 05 sec | 61°20 min 36 sec | Cape Percival |
| 12. | 51°41 min 35 sec | 61°19 min 46 sec | Landsend Bluff |
| 13. | 51°00 min 27 sec | 61°15 min 36 sec | Steeple Jason Islet |
| 14. | 51°01 min 09 sec | 61°07 min 46 sec | Grand Jason NW Islet |
| 15. | 51°01 min 30 sec | 61°05 min 34 sec | Grand Jason N Islet |
| 16. | 51°09 min 36 sec | 60°14 min 13 sec | Wreck Islands |
| 17. | 51°12 min 28 sec | 59°54 min 58 sec | Government Island |
| 18. | 51°13 min 49 sec | 59°46 min 23 sec | White Island |
| 19. | 51°16 min 26 sec | 59°29 min 55 sec | Cape Tamar |
| 20. | 51°13 min 59 sec | 58°57 min 56 sec | Cape Dolphin |
| 21. | 51°17 min 52 sec | 58°27 min 42 sec | Cape Bougainville |
| 22. | 51°21 min 40 sec | 57°56 min 46 sec | MacBride Head |
The above positions are on Falkland Islands Datum (1943).
(This note is not part of the Order)
This order extends the boundaries of the Falkland Islands, so as to include, as territorial sea, the sea within twelve nautical miles of the baselines, together with its seabed and subsoil, and makes other provisions in this connection. In particular, it defines the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured as generally the low-water line, except that a series of straight baselines joining specified points is provided for. The effect of the Order is to establish around all of the Falkland Islands (including Beauchene Island) a territorial sea extending to 12 nautical miles from the appropriate baselines.
