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The Alaska boundary dispute was a territorial dispute between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which then controlled Canada's foreign relations. It was resolved by arbitration in 1903.
Territorial fishing disputes between the countries remain today, as the United States has never shown the "A–B" line as an official boundary on its government maps. [ 7 ] Maps of the Dixon Entrance showing the A–B Line of 1903 [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] (left, upper dash-dot-dot line) and the boundary currently claimed by the U.S. [ 11 ] (right ...
Each country used a mildly differing method to define an equidistant water boundary. The two separate water areas in dispute amount to about 51.5 km 2 (19.9 sq mi). [3] Yukon–Alaska dispute, Beaufort Sea (Alaska and Yukon) Canada supports an extension into the sea of the land boundary between Yukon and Alaska. The U.S. does not but instead ...
Alaska controlled all the possible ports of entry. Canada argued its boundary included the port of Skagway, held by the U.S.. The dispute went to arbitration in 1903, but the British delegate sided with the Americans, angering Canadians who felt the British had betrayed Canadian interests to curry favour with the U.S. [14] [15]
The group will work toward a final agreement covering the border area, which lies north of Alaska and the Canadian provinces of Yukon and the Northwest Territories, the two countries said.
The 1903 State of the Union Address was submitted on Monday, December 7, 1903, by the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, to both houses of the 58th United States Congress. [ 2 ] Concerning immigration to the United States , Roosevelt commented, "We can not have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have ...
"Now, your refusal to address these crises has left America's northern border communities, from Alaska to Maine, along the world's longest international border, at the forefront of a growing ...
The summit of Mount Alverstone marks a sharp turn in the Alaska/Canada border; the border goes south from this point toward the Alaska panhandle and west toward Mount Saint Elias. The mountain was named in 1908 for Lord Richard Everard Webster Alverstone , Lord Chief Justice of England, 1900–13, and U.S. Boundary Commissioner in 1903.