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Volume 9, Number 1 (2008)

Surveying a Land Boundary Reference Point Used in the Guyana-Suriname Maritime Boundary Delimitation

  • David Gray
Submitted
August 13, 2013
Published
2008-01-01

Abstract

The delimitation of the maritime boundary between Guyana and Suriname by a tribunal constituted in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and acting under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration required the tribunal to consider the precise geographic location of a marker established in 1936. That marker would become a reference point for the first segment of the maritime boundary. This necessitated a visit to the site of the marker by the Tribunal's Hydrographer. This paper outlines the efforts and the precautions taken during that site visit.