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==Boundary dispute== [[File:The Olympian Range, from Esquimalt (HS85-10-11325).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Olympic Mountains]] of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] as seen from the entrance to [[Esquimalt Harbour]], 1900, photo: [[John Wallace Jones]]]]This strait remains the subject of a maritime boundary dispute between Canada and the United States. The dispute is only over the seaward boundary extending {{convert|200|nmi|km}} west from the mouth of the strait. The maritime boundary within the strait is not in dispute. Both governments have proposed a boundary based on the [[Equidistance principle|principle of equidistance]], but with different basepoint selections, resulting in small differences in the line. Resolution of the issue should be simple, but has been hindered because it might influence [[:Category:Canada–United States border disputes|other unresolved]] maritime boundary issues between Canada and the United States.<ref>{{cite book |last= Charney |first= Jonathan I. |author2=David A. Colson |author3=Robert W. Smith |title= International maritime boundaries |year= 2005 |publisher= Martinus Nijhoff |isbn= 978-90-04-14461-3 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=RN0GnOcw0McC&pg=PA3403 |page= 3403}}</ref> In addition, the government of British Columbia has rejected both equidistant proposals, instead arguing that the Juan de Fuca [[submarine canyon]] is the appropriate "geomorphic and physiogeographic boundary".<ref>[http://www.cwilson.com/pubs/energy/alaska.pdf The Alaska Boundary Dispute: History and International Law] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218165011/http://www.cwilson.com/pubs/energy/alaska.pdf |date=2008-12-18 }}, by Tony Fogarassy, page 3; citing Office of the Premier, Province of British Columbia, ''Submission of the Province of British Columbia on West Coast Maritime Boundaries Between Canada and the United States'' (1977). A map of the Juan de Fuca Canyon is available at [http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06olympic/background/coralhab/media/coral_map_600.html Map of Known Deep Corals in and around the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary], NOAA Ocean Explorer</ref> The proposed equidistant boundary currently marks the northern boundary of the [[Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary]]. British Columbia's position is based on the [[Natural prolongation principle|principle of natural prolongation]] which developed in [[international law]]. It poses a dilemma for the federal government of Canada. If Canada holds that the principle of natural prolongation applies to the Juan de Fuca Canyon on its [[Pacific Ocean]] coast, the assertion could undermine Canada's argument in the [[Machias Seal Island#Gulf of Maine boundary|''Gulf of Maine'' boundary dispute]]. In this [[Atlantic Ocean]] context, Canada favours an outcome based on the principle of equidistance.<ref>{{cite book |last= McRae |first= Donald Malcolm |author2=Gordon Ross Munro |title= Canadian Oceans Policy: National Strategies and the New Law of the Sea |year= 1989 |publisher= UBC Press |isbn= 978-0-7748-0346-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IFVH8zKQAzkC&pg=PA151 |pages= 151–152}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Johnston |first= Douglas M. |author2=Mark J. Valencia |title= Pacific Ocean Boundary Problems: Status and Solutions |year= 1991 |publisher= Martinus Nijhoff |isbn= 978-0-7923-0862-1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=zOoADxl4YToC&pg=PA102 |page= 102}}</ref>
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