(English version) Agreement on Maritime Delimitation between Australia and France on 4 January 1982

Country: Australia, France

Sea: Coral Sea

Scope: Bilateral

Document Language: English, French

  • Summary

This legal document contains the English version of the Agreement on Maritime Delimitation between Australia and France, signed on 4 January 1982.

Article 1 provides the coordinates constituting the maritime boundary (EEZ & Continental Shelf) between (1) Australia’s islands in the Coral Sea, Norfolk Island, and other Australian islands and (2) France’s New Caledonia, Chesterfield Islands, and other French islands.

Article 2 provides the coordinates constituting the maritime boundary (EEZ & Continental Shelf) between (1) Australia’s Heard and McDonald Islands and (2) France’s Kerguelen Islands.

Regarding the continental shelf, the final basepoint of each of the demarcation lines mentioned in Articles 1 and 2 of the Agreement does not imply the final point for the continental shelf boundary, if the continental shelf boundary needs to be extended in the future.

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