
1 
This Order may be cited as the Falkland Islands (Territorial Sea) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.
2 
The boundaries of the Colony of the Falkland Islands are hereby extended to include, as territorial Sea, that part of the sea which is situated within 12 nautical miles measured from the baselines as established by article 3 of this Order, together with the seabed of the territorial sea and its subsoil.
3 

(1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (2) to (4) of this article, the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Falkland Islands is measured shall be the low-water line along the coast of all islands comprised in the Colony of the Falkland Islands.
(2) For the purposes of this article a low-tide elevation which lies wholly or partly within the breadth of sea which would be territorial sea if all low-tide elevations were disregarded for the purpose of the measurement of the breadth thereof and if paragraphs (3) and (4) of this article were omitted shall be treated as an island.
(3) The baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured between Cape Carysfort (East Falkland), Cape Percival (West Falkland) and MacBride Head (East Falkland) shall consist of the series of loxodromes drawn so as to join successively, in the order in which they are there set out, the points identified by the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude in the first column of the Schedule to this Order, each being a point situate on the low-water line on or adjacent to the feature named in the second column of that Schedule opposite to the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude of the point in the first column.
(4) The provisions of paragraph (3) of this article shall be without prejudice to the operation of paragraph (2) of this article in relation to any island or low-tide elevation which for the purposes of that paragraph is treated as if it were an island, being an island or low-tide elevation which lies to seaward of the baseline specified in paragraph (3) of this article.
4 
In this Order—
(a) “island” means a naturally formed area of land surrounded by water which is above water at mean high-water spring tides;
(b) “low-tide elevation” means a naturally formed area of drying land surrounded by water which is below water at mean high-water spring tides; and
(c) “nautical miles” means international nautical miles of 1,852 metres.
G I de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE
Article 3


 Co-ordinates of latitude and longitude of Point Name of Feature
 Latitude South Longitude West 
1. 51°24 min 49 sec 57°50 min 52 sec Cape Carysfort
2. 51°30 min 38 sec 57°44 min 11 sec Volunteer Point
3. 51°40 min 34 sec 57°41 min 00 sec Seal Rocks
4. 51°43 min 41 sec 57°44 min 22 sec Wolf Rock
5. 52°05 min 51 sec 58°24 min 36 sec Prong Point
6. 52°27 min 00 sec 58°53 min 33 sec East Sea Lion Island
7. 52°26 min 53 sec 59°07 min 16 sec West Sea Lion Island
8. 52°23 min 48 sec 59°43 min 25 sec Barren Island
9. 52°15 min 33 sec 60°38 min 52 sec Cape Meredith
10. 52°10 min 11 sec 60°56 min 07 sec Bird Island
11. 51°50 min 05 sec 61°20 min 36 sec Cape Percival
12. 51°41 min 35 sec 61°19 min 46 sec Landsend Bluff
13. 51°00 min 27 sec 61°15 min 36 sec Steeple Jason Islet
14. 51°01 min 09 sec 61°07 min 46 sec Grand Jason NW Islet
15. 51°01 min 30 sec 61°05 min 34 sec Grand Jason N Islet
16. 51°09 min 36 sec 60°14 min 13 sec Wreck Islands
17. 51°12 min 28 sec 59°54 min 58 sec Government Island
18. 51°13 min 49 sec 59°46 min 23 sec White Island
19. 51°16 min 26 sec 59°29 min 55 sec Cape Tamar
20. 51°13 min 59 sec 58°57 min 56 sec Cape Dolphin
21. 51°17 min 52 sec 58°27 min 42 sec Cape Bougainville
22. 51°21 min 40 sec 57°56 min 46 sec MacBride Head
The above positions are on Falkland Islands Datum (1943).