The Dominican Republic – United Kingdom Maritime Boundary Agreement is a 1996

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between the

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and the

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which delimits the maritime boundary between the

and the British territory of the

Turks and Caicos Islands The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and n ...

.Anderson, Ewan W. (2003). ''International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas,'' p. 242; Charney, Jonathan I. ''et al.'' (2005). ''International Maritime Boundaries,'' pp. 2235–2243. The treaty was signed on 2 August 1996. The text of the treaty establishes a boundary that runs roughly east–west and is actually north (closer to the Turks and Caicos) of the equidistant line between the two territories. The boundary is 283 nautical miles long and consists of four straight-line

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segments defined by five individual coordinate points. The far western point of the border is a

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with

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. The treaty has not yet come into force because it has not been ratified by both states. The full name of the treaty is ''Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Dominican Republic concerning the delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands''.

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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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1996 in the Dominican Republic 1996 in the Caribbean 1996 in the United Kingdom Treaties concluded in 1996 Boundary treaties Dominican Republic–Turks and Caicos Islands border Treaties of the Dominican Republic Treaties of the United Kingdom Dominican Republic–United Kingdom relations United Nations treaties 1996 in the Turks and Caicos Islands Treaties extended to the Turks and Caicos Islands {{TurksCaicos-stub