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This study examines changing conceptions of the Southern Gulf Islands, an archipelago on the coast of British Columbia, through the twentieth century. By drawing on ideas put forward by government officials, journalists, residents, and travellers it develops an explanation for how and why a conception of the Gulf Islands as a ‘special’ or ‘unique’ pastoral landscape emerged as a result of interactions between individuals and groups, and their political, social, economic, and physical environments. It then examines how these ideas in turn influenced the development of land-use policies and programs, and in particular how an innovative, overarching planning commission called the Islands Trust emerged in 1974 as a mechanism devoted to limiting development and defending the Islands as a pastoral landscape of leisure. More than reflecting such a pastoral depiction of the Islands, the initiatives undertaken by the newly formed Trust ascribed to the idea that a defining lifestyle, characterized by arcadian pursuits such as mixed farming, boutique logging, handicrafts, or the arts, was legitimate for such a landscape. By embracing such a conception of the Gulf Islands’ environment, the Islands Trust endeavoured to preserve and create this landscape through an agenda that supported farmland, forest, and open space retention, and encouraged those activities deemed to be in keeping with the unique ‘character’ of the Islands. The initial work of enshrining the pastoral ‘character’ of the Islands into land-use planning policies and programs by the Trust laid a framework for ongoing efforts to shape the landscape, economy, development, and identity of the region into the present day. / Graduate / 0334

LL.M. (Law) / The position with regard to a number of fairly small result of the proximity of these islands to the coast of South West Africa and the fact that the latter is also entitled to lay claim to maritime zones, the potential for overlapping claims to such zones clearly exists. Consequently a solution is proposed to delimit these zones equitably. It amounts in short to awarding an enclave jurisdictional zone of 12 nautical miles to each of these islands, delimited in accordance with the equidistant principle. It is conceded, however, that in the final instance, the eventual delimitation of all these maritime zones depends on agrertent between the two parties concerned. islands off the coast of South West Africa/Nar'ibia, generally known as the Penguin Islands, their status as well as the maritime zones they may generate, are examined in this study. With the emphasis on the 1958 Geneva Conventions and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention the endeavours to codify the rules of the Law of the Sea are set out as the backdrop against which the rules applicable to the position of these islands are to be discovered. The various definitions of islands in these codifications are identified and the elements of the definition in the 1982 Convention as well as some of the elements proposed by a number of delegations to the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference, are examined in detail. An investigation into the applicable conventional provisions and state practice, prove that in principle islands, just like mainland areas, are capable of generating territorial waters, a contiguous zone, an economic or fishing zone as w all as a continental shelf. In terms of the 1982 Convention so-called rocks do not qualify to generate areas of jurisdiction to the same extent as islands. The effect of islands on the delimitation of maritime zones between adjacent and opposite states is examined with a view to finding principles which could by analogy be applied to the delimitation of the maritime zones generated by the Penguin Islands and the mainland of South West Africa. In the case of territorial waters, it is initially left to the parties concerned to come to an agreement. Failing such agreement the equidistant principle applies unless a historic title or special circuitstances requires an alternative solution. In a number of instances the solution eventually arrived at amounted to awarding enclave maritime zones to islands and delimiting such zones against that of the opposite state by way of the equidistant principle. In the case of the delimitation of the continental shelf state practice revealed that, depending on their relative geographical location in relation to their own and opposite states, islands are accorded full or limited weight in delimiting the continental shelf between the mainland states concerned. Corresponding principles are applied in the delimitation of economic or fishery zones. South Africa's claims to territorial sovereignty over the Penguin Islands have been repeatedly questioned but the records show that these claims can he indisputably substantiated. Compliance with the definition of an island is of the utmost importance in ascertaining whether an insular formation is entitled to generate any specific maritime zone and, therefore, a description of each of these islands is provided. As a result of the proximity of these islands to the coast of South West Africa and the fact that the latter is also entitled to lay claim to aritime zones, the potential for overlapping claims to such zones clearly exists. Consequently a solution is proposed to delimit these zones equitably. It amounts in hort to awarding an enclave jurisdictional zone of 12 nautical miles to each of these islands, delimited in accordance with the equidistant principle. It is conceded, however, that in the final instance, the eventual delimitation of all these maritime zones depends on agrertent between the two parties concerned.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Gaye Christoffersen, Lyman Miller. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-94). Also available online.

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At the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Queen Charlotte Islands were witness to dramatic transformations. Surveyors and scientists mapped the islands, describing the resources and conditions. Because of the favourable climate and locale, settlers and capital flowed to the Islands, changing the landscapes. And although the Islands' indigenous peoples embraced many aspects of the modernisation in the islands, they were excluded from claims to the islands. The modernization of the Queen Charlotte Islands came to a fevered climax in 1913, with the building of canneries, mines whaling stations, and logging camps, and with a flurry of land speculation. Haida frustration also increased at this time, spurned by their alienation from the land and their treatment as wards of the state. This thesis considers these transformations in the Queen Charlotte Islands by reflecting on various representations of place. Through these disparate images is the common narrative of progress through which the Islands are framed - be it through various prospects of tourism, science, capital, church or bureaucracy. What becomes apparent in all attempts to define and describe this place are the failures of vocabularies that are brought by settlers and visitors and imposed upon the Islands. Rather, the ability to know and control becomes allusive, thus openning more questions into the meaning of place.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1982. / Bibliography: leaves 254-268. / Microfiche. / xx, 268 leaves, bound maps 29 cm

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1966. / Bibliography: leaves [158]-160. / 160 l illus., maps (1 fold. col. in pocket), tables

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-83). / ix, 83 leaves, bound ill., map 29 cm