The France – Saint Lucia Agreement on Delimitation is a 1981

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between

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and

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

which delimits the maritime boundary between

and the French territory of

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in th ...

.Anderson, Ewan W.(2003). ; Charney, Jonathan I. ''et al.'' (2005). ''International Maritime Boundaries,'' Vol. 1, pp. 591-602. The treaty was signed in

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on 4 March 1981. The text of the treaty sets out a boundary that is an equidistant line between the two islands in the

Saint Lucia Channel Saint Lucia Channel is a strait in the Caribbean that separates French island Martinique, to the north, and Saint Lucia, in the south. It is a pathway between Caribbean sea and Atlantic ocean.Ana G. López MartíInternational Straits: Concept, Cl ...

. The boundary is set out in an east–west direction and consists of 17 straight-line

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segments defined by 18 individual coordinate points. The far western point of the boundary is the

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with

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and the far eastern point is the tripoint with

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. Commentators have noted that it is curious that the treaty does not refer to the island of Martinique. The treaty came into force upon signature. The full name of the treaty is ''Agreement on Delimitation between the Government of the French Republic and the Government of Saint Lucia''.

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References

* Anderson, Ewan W. (2003). ''International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas.'' Routledge: New York.
OCLC 54061586
* Charney, Jonathan I., David A. Colson, Robert W. Smith. (2005). ''International Maritime Boundaries,'' 5 vols. Hotei Publishing: Leiden. ; ; ; ;
OCLC 23254092

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