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SAN JUAN (or HARD) ISLANDS , an archipelago (San Juan, Orcas, Shaw
Island and the mainland of North America. These islands were for many years the subject of dispute between the British and the United States governments, and were finally assigned to the latter country by the arbitration of the emperor of Germany (on the 21st of October 1872). Geographically the cluster certainly belongs to the mainland, from which it is separated by Rosario Strait, generally much under 50 fathoms in depth, while Haro
Island
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separate
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See Papers relating to the Treaty of Washington, vol. v. (Washing-ton, 1872), and the map in Petermann's Mitteilungen (1873). End of Article: SAN JUAN (or HARD) ISLANDS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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