Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-xm8r8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-29T12:05:38.305Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Appendix B - Convention between Great Britain and the Netherlands Defining Boundaries in Borneo. Signed at London, 20 June 1891

from Appendixes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2020

Get access

Summary

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and Her Majesty the Queen-Dowager, Regent of the Netherlands, in the name of Her Majesty Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, being desirous of defining the boundaries between the Netherland possessions in the Island of Borneo and the States in that island which are under British protection, have resolved to conclude a Convention to that effect, and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries for that purpose, that it to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Right Honourable Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury, Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, Baron Cecil, Peer of the United Kingdom, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, & c.; and Her Majesty the Queen Dowager Regent of the Netherlands, Count Charles Malcolm Ernest Georges de Bylandt, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherland Lion, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James’: who, having produced their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:-

ARTICLE I

The boundary between the Netherland possessions in Borneo and those of the British protected States in the same island shall start from 4°10’ north latitude on the east coast of Borneo.

ARTICLE II

The boundary-line shall be continued westward from 4°10’ north latitude, and follow in a west-north-west direction, between the Rivers Simengaris and Soedang, up to the point where the meridian 117° east longitude crosses the parallel 4°20’ north latitude, with the view of including the Simengaris River within Dutch territory.

Type
Chapter
Information
The Indonesia-Malaysia Dispute Concerning Sovereignty over Sipadan and Ligitan Islands
Historical Antecedents and the International Court of Justice Judgment
, pp. 197 - 199
Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Print publication year: 2019

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×