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is that (c) - necessary to IlnK up the islands because
it is scarcely practicable to ring each Island and islet ~
should be used in conjunction with (b) and (d). It will
be seen that (e) cannot be applied, for to do so would
exclude the above desiderata.
18. Prom paragraph 15 it will be seen that I an of
the opinion that the islands form a ,?roup and j recommend
that a delimiting line arrived at by methods (fc) f (e) and
(d) should ring that group. It would then become a Bahrain
enclave An area of land belonging to one country and entirely surrounded by land of just one other country. situated to the oast of the Qatar-Bahrain sea-
dividing-line. My reasons for deciding on an enclave An area of land belonging to one country and entirely surrounded by land of just one other country.
are that the group Is situated partly in atar terri
torial wat-: is nearer the shores of Qatar than the
median line Arc leef f vide paragraph 20 below. fha sea
between the west of the * group* and Arc Heef may contain
shoals and. shallows outside the ‘group* enclave An area of land belonging to one country and entirely surrounded by land of just one other country. which.may
De of value, and I see no reason why because Mawar group
is in close proximity to atar, Qatar should be deprived
of these shoals. This would happen if the line as
suggested on chart A.P.G. were followed.
19. rh© line then, starting from 3 miles north of the
northern tip of u&war should be drawn southwards to the
iow water line of Ajeira on. the east, and thence south
to the point on the eastern low water line of bawud
bhumaliyah, and on to sawad Janubiyah. Thence to the
median line of the ’causeway’, down to pirate’s channel,
and to the eastern low tide'line of the tail of Kawar.
From there it should follow the low water line of the
tail (since Hawar is now in ^a.tar territorial waters),
and at the rump be continued for three miles in a westerly
direction out to-sea. From there it should follow the
coast line at the territorial water limit and so northwards
to join ails, the starting point.
I have actually traced a line on an enlargement
of which copies are enclosed, but X should like to point
out that the enlargements are misleading in that they are
not at all exact.
20. Turning from the Hawar group the median line between
.a,tar and Bahrain should be established. .his must obviously
start from the intersection of the taudi Arabian-Bahrain-
.•atar sea limits, and this point readily suggests itself
to be the southerly extremity of Arc Beef which forms an
arc round the southern end of Bahrain island. It is a
well defined reef, marked on charts and extends from
Aellaq through Ghasaar hock, round the south end of Bahrain
Island and on in a northerly direction until it terminates
in deep water at a point approximately ! 26.55 F. 50.50.
This point may be called BBS. Arc reef, is part of the
Bahrain structure, but it lies outside their territorial
waters., On it are situated many islands used by Bahrain
fishermen, and as it happens to coincide approximately with
the median line between ,*atar and Bahrain and is a natural
barrier, its contour should be followed (leaving the feature
to Bahrain) as the delimiting line.
/21. At point