Declaration of Archipelagos of Solomon Islands (No. 32 of 1978)
Made 1979-08-20 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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- European Union
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- Solomon Islands
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- Sea
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- maritime zone, territorial sea, sovereignty, maritime boundaries
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1375 SOL 8 SUPPLEMENT to the Solomon Islands Guette Friday, 31st August 1979 s.r. No. 13 (Legal Notice No. 40] mE DELIMITATION OF MARINE WATERS ACT (No. 32 of 1978) DECLARATION OF ARCHIPELAGOS OF SOLOMON ISLANDS IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) of the Delimitation of Marine Waters Act, the Prime Minister hereby declares the following ~oups of islands to be archipelagos for the purposes of the Act· MAIN GROUP ARCHIPELAGO Shortland Islands Treasury Islands Choiseul Islands New Georgia Islands Santa Isabel Islands Dail Island Russell Islands Florida Islands Malaita Island Guadalcanal Island Makira island Santa Ana Island Santa Catalina Island Ulawa Island 1376 SOL 9 '!HE RENNELL, BELLONA AND INDISPENSABLE REEF ATOLL ARCHIPELAGO Rennell Island Bellona Island Indispensable Reef Atoll '!HE ONTONG JAVA GROUP ARCHIPELAGO Ontong Java Atoll THE SANTA. CRUZ ISLANDS ARCHIPELAGO Santa Cruz Islands 'tHE DUFF ISLANDS ARCHIPELAGO Duff Islands Made at Honiara this twentieth da)' of August, 1979. PETER KENILOREA Prime Minister [Legal Notice No. 41] '!HE DELIMITATION OF MARINE WATERS ACT (No. 32 of 1978) DECLARATION OF ARCHIPELAGIC BASELINES IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 4(2) of the Delimitation of Marine Waters Act, 1978, the Prime Minister hereby delcares that the points between which straight baselines are to be drawn for the purpose of determinin2 the outer most limits of the archipelagic waters and the innermost limits of the territorlal sea of the archipelagos of Solomon Islands shall be those geographical eo-crdlnat specified below i THE MAIN GROUP ARCHIPELAGO POINT CO-ORDINATES SOUTH EAST ON B.A. CHART 1. On the reef 06059'. 2 155031' .75 2. On west coast of Mono I. 07 0 ?S' .85 155031'. 2 3. N. Laifa Point 07025'. 1 156031'. 6 4. On West coast of SLerling 1. 07027' . 2 155033' . 1 3419 3419 3419 3419