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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 ...
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.
The eastern border of Yukon Territory was slightly adjusted, thus exchanging some area with the North-West Territories, and also including some more islands. [36] October 20, 1903 The Alaska boundary dispute was resolved, generally in favour of the United States claim. [16] Disputes: September 1, 1905
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]
Beaufort Sea - Yukon–Alaska dispute; Dixon Entrance, southern Alaska and coastal British Columbia - Dispute stems from the ambiguity of the Hay–Herbert Treaty in 1903 between the United States and the United Kingdom signed to settle the Alaska boundary dispute, an agreement opposed by Canadian leaders. Haiti
With the gold rush into the Canadian Yukon in 1898, miners had to enter through Alaska. Canada wanted the boundary redrawn to obtain its own seaport. Canada rejected the American offer of a long-term lease on an American port. The issue went to arbitration and the Alaska boundary dispute was finally resolved by an arbitration in 1903. The ...