The Cook Islands – France Maritime Delimitation Agreement is a

treaty A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between sovereign states and/or international organizations that is governed by international law. A treaty may also be known as an international agreement, protocol, covenant, convention ...

in which the two states agreed to the

delimitation Electoral boundary delimitation (or simply boundary delimitation or delimitation) is the drawing of boundaries of electoral precincts and related divisions involved in elections, such as Federated state, states, counties or other municipalities ...

of the

maritime boundary A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of Earth's water surface areas using physiographical or geopolitical criteria. As such, it usually bounds areas of exclusive national rights over mineral and biological resources,VLIZ Maritime Boun ...

between the

Cook Islands The Cook Islands is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately . The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers of ocean. Avarua is its ...

and

French Polynesia French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole #Governance, overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. The t ...

.Anderson, Ewan W. (2003). ''International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas,'' pp. 297, 595; Charney, Jonathan I. ''et al.'' (2005). ''International Maritime Boundaries,'' p. 1179. The treaty was signed at

Rarotonga Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands. The island is volcanic, with an area of , and is home to almost 75% of the country's population, with 10,898 of a total population of 15,040. The Parliament of the Cook Islands, Coo ...

on 3 August 1990. The boundary is approximately 650

nautical miles A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute ( of a degree) of latitude at the eq ...

long and is a modified equidistant line. The treaty defines the boundary using seven straight-line

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segments defined by eight specific coordinate points. The official name for the treaty is ''Agreement on Maritime Delimitation between the Government of the Cook Islands and the Government of the French Republic''. It entered into force on the day it was signed.

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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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Full text of treaty
1990 in the Cook Islands 1990 in Overseas France 1990s in French Polynesia Cook Islands–French Polynesia border Boundary treaties Treaties of the Cook Islands Treaties concluded in 1990 Treaties entered into force in 1990 Bilateral treaties of France United Nations treaties Treaties extended to French Polynesia {{Treaty-stub