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	Timor Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Timor Sea (Indonesian: Laut Timor; Portugeuse: Mar Timor) is an arm of the Indian Ocean situated between the island of Timor, now split between the states of Indonesia and East Timor, and the Northern Territory of Australia.
		The waters to the east are known as the Arafura Sea, technically an arm of the Pacific Ocean.
		The Timor Sea has two substantial inlets on the north Australian coast, the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and the Van Diemen Gulf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timor_Sea (333 words)

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		In it, fishes from the sea and crocodiles driven down stream continue to develop until the natives dig an exit (this is accompanied by a ritual in which fishes, shrimp, snakes and small crocodiles are caught by hand).
		In fact, massive character of East Timor is transposed to the coasts, in the north being very represented by slopes ending abruptly in the sea, which aggravated by it's discreet contours, leave scarce shelters.
		The south coast of Timor, facing the Indian Ocean is constantly billowed by the Timor Sea, therefore struggling for navigation.
	www.uc.pt /timor/geomorf.html (1452 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In this topic, references to the localization of the island in the Indonesian archipelago are followed by a descrimination of the four territories that compose East Timor, by order of importance, the mainland, the enclave of Ocússi-Ambeno in West Timor, and the islands of Ataúro in the north and tiny Jaco at east.
		Timor, the Malay word for "Orient", is an island of the Malay Archipelago, the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sundas, lying between parallels 8 deg.
		The total area of Timor is of 32 350 sq km, measuring the maximums of 470 km in length and 110 km in width.
	www.uc.pt /timor/geography.html (274 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Timor Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Timor Sea, stretch of water merging with the Indian Ocean to the south-west, and the Arafura Sea to the north-east, and separating the island of...
		Arafura Sea, shallow arm of the western Pacific Ocean, between northern Australia and islands of eastern Indonesia.
		Timor, island, in the Malay Archipelago, the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Timor_Sea.html (117 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Timor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Timor, island in Southeast Asia, in the Malay Archipelago, the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.
		Ramos-Horta, José, born in 1949, leader of the resistance movement that battled the occupation of East Timor by Indonesia.
		Dili, town on the north central coast of the island of Timor, one of Timor’s chief ports, and the capital of East Timor.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Timor+...&grp=map (248 words)

	CNN.com - East Timor pins hope on energy deal - May 20, 2002
		East Timor will receive 90 per cent of the oil and gas revenue from the Timor Sea Treaty, a potential income of tens of billions of dollars.
		According to the budgets prepared for the donors' meetings in Dili on May 14-15, East Timor's oil income is projected to be $20 million this year, or 5.3 percent of the country's GDP of $371 million.
		Much of the East Timor is still reeling from the devastating violence that followed the 1999 referendum on independence from Indonesia.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/05/20/timor.govt (776 words)

	Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea Launched- Empire? - Global Policy Forum
		The Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea was formed in Dili, East Timor in April 2004 to help the Australian government and people better understand how people in East Timor feel about Australia’s violations of our rights, occupation of our maritime territory, theft of our resources, and denial of our nationhood.
		The Timor Sea Treaty is now law, and we recognize that East Timor, as a sovereign nation, should follow the law and keep its word.
		The signers of the Timor Sea Treaty were “convinced” that it would “provide a firm foundation for continuing and strengthening the friendly relations between Australia and East Timor,” but this has not been the case.
	www.globalpolicy.org /empire/economy/2004/0414etimor.htm (2054 words)

	Bedevilled in the Timor Sea
		Scratch a diagram of the Timor Sea into the dirt, with the island of Timor on one side and the great landmass of Australia on the other, and draw a line between them.
		As it is four years since Mari Alkatiri, now East Timor's Prime Minister, and Peter Galbraith, now the lead East Timor negotiator on the boundary, told Downer of their intention to pursue a median line boundary, some would argue the department has taken a long time to get up to speed.
		Australia and East Timor also have negotiated an agreement in which East Timor would receive 90 per cent of revenues from the 20 per cent of Greater Sunrise laying within the joint petroleum development area, but Alkatiri is refusing to put this to his parliament for ratification.
	www.etan.org /et2004/may/22/29bedevil.htm (1777 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Santos to buy stake in Timor Sea gas field
		Meanwhile, East Timor is pressing to settle by July 15 a new treaty to split oil and gas revenues from the Timor Sea with Australia based on a midway sea boundary, a key Timorese official said.
		Galbraith argued that East Timor deserved a bigger slice of the royalty revenue from Timor Gap oil and gas production than Australia because Australia already stood to benefit to the tune of more than A$ 1 bn from the development of a new methanol plant in the Northern Territory fed by Timor Sea gas.
		That compares with A$ 100 mm a year East Timor expected to receive by the middle of this decade from the Bayu-Undan liquids project in the Timor Sea and an additional A$ 50 mm a year which could come from a gas pipeline.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cns11950.htm (781 words)

	Oxfam Australia :: Polliewatch
		Until the maritime boundary issue is settled, Australia and East Timor have signed a number of interim resource-sharing agreements on the Timor Sea oil and gas fields.
		The establishment of the JPDA was derived from the 1989 Timor Gap Treaty between Australia and Indonesia, a treaty that heavily favoured Australia because the major oil and gas fields lie in territory claimed by Australia extending to the edge of the Australian continental shelf, sending the vast bulk of revenue flows to Canberra.
		However, when East Timor pointed out that it could seek to have the matter independently adjudicated by the International Court of Justice, the Australian Government formally withdrew from the dispute settlement procedures offered by the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea with respect to maritime boundary disputes.
	www.oxfam.org.au /campaigns/polliewatch/east_timorsea.html (1445 words)

	The Timor Sea Treaty: Are the Issues Resolved?
		This was based on the 1958 Convention on the Continental Shelf which said that states should control the sea to the limits of their continental shelf, the place where the sea floor drops away to the deep ocean.
		Thus UNTAET negotiated a Timor Sea Treaty which is essentially the same as the old Timor Gap Treaty, with the important concession that East Timor is to receive 90 per cent rather than 50 per cent of revenue from the Joint Area.
		East Timor is in a weak position to pursue its case further because recourse to the International Court of Justice has been cut off by Australia's recent withdrawal of acceptance of the Court's jurisdiction on maritime boundary issues.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn45.htm (1233 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| World dispatch \| Drawing a line on the Timor Gap
		East Timor, less than a year old and struggling to escape from the effects of its 25-year occupation by Indonesia, has got in a fight with its powerful southern neighbour over those most coveted of commodities, oil and gas.
		The focus of the argument has been billions of pounds worth of fossil fuel which lie in the torrid waters of the Timor sea, which is closer to Timor than Australia but strung along a disputed area of ocean whose history has been intimately bound up in East Timor's own struggle for independence.
		The status of the Timor sea border still lies undecided, although neither the Australian government nor the opposition show any interest in following the overwhelming opinion of international law and agreeing a median border.
	www.guardian.co.uk /elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,883296,00.html (1015 words)

	Asia Times
		East Timor's wealthiest neighbor had positioned itself to be the main beneficiary of a treaty to divide the rich oil and natural-gas reserves of the Timor Sea.
		Inevitably, all this sharing in the Timor Sea has been restricted to the petroleum reserves on East Timor's side of the midpoint between the two countries.
		The Timor Sea Treaty finally came into force on April 2, with Prime Minister Alkatiri saying that "as a temporary revenue-sharing arrangement, the treaty represents a good interim measure until maritime boundaries are agreed".
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EE21Ae06.html (2028 words)

	Timor Sea Office - home
		The Timor Sea Office is part of the Office of Timor-Leste (East Timor) Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.
		The primary task of the Timor Sea Office is to establish permanent maritime boundaries with Timor-Leste's neighbours, Australia and Indonesia.
		The Timor Sea Office has also assisted the Timor-Leste Government with establishing the legal and institutional framework for the development and management of petroleum resources in Timor-Leste's exclusive maritime and onshore areas.
	www.timorseaoffice.gov.tp /enindex.htm (207 words)

	Geography of East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article describes the geography of East Timor.
		Southeastern Asia, northwest of Australia in the Lesser Sunda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago; note - East Timor includes the eastern half of the island of Timor, the Ocussi-Ambeno region on the northwest portion of the island of Timor, and the islands of Atauro and Jaco
		Timor is the Malay word for "Orient"; the island of Timor is part of the Malay Archipelago and is the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_East_Timor (190 words)

	Oxfam Australia :: The future of East Timor
		Fortunately for East Timor, there is a window of opportunity for financing its development needs and investing for future generations over the coming decades - the lucrative oil and gas reserves of the Timor Sea.
		Under the waters of the Timor Sea between Australia and East Timor lie vast reserves of oil and natural gas worth tens of billions of dollars which are currently subject to overlapping maritime boundary claims by the two countries.
		Access to oil and gas revenue from the Timor Sea is a vital economic lifeline to address the poverty experienced by the majority of East Timorese people.
	www.oxfam.org.au /campaigns/easttimor (463 words)

	Correspondents Report - Negotiations renewed over Australia-East Timor oil dispute
		HAMISH ROBERTSON: A renewed effort is being made to end the diplomatic war of words between Australia and East Timor over oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea and the precise location of the boundary between the two countries.
		Under the take-the-money formula, Australian officials say a permanent boundary in the Timor Sea should be deferred until after all oil and gas resources have been exploited.
		He says East Timor's ambit claim asks for ownership of virtually all the oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea, including ten-and-a-half thousand square kilometres of Indonesian seabed.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2004/s1311233.htm (625 words)

	RIGZONE - Australian Govt Fends Off Criticism Over Timor Sea Treaty
		The government of East Timor recently called on Australia to cease production in those oil fields that lie within disputed areas of the Timor Sea until a permanent maritime treaty is reached.
		Last year East Timor, fresh from winning independence from Indonesia, claimed a maritime boundary extending 200 nautical miles from its coast, overlapping Australia's own claimed boundary and putting in doubt the ownership of the Timor Sea's vast gas reserves.
		While the two countries have agreed a treaty to carve up an area of the Timor Sea and provide fiscal certainty to developers, the deal is only an interim arrangement pending a fixed boundary.
	www.rigzone.com /news/article.asp?a_id=9649 (367 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| E Timor independence day muted
		Oxfam warned on Wednesday that East Timor was at risk of becoming a failed state unless Australia allowed it a fairer share of Timor Sea oil revenues.
		The anniversary was overshadowed by a row over a maritime border with Australia, with the Oxfam report claiming Australia was hampering East Timor's finances by laying claim to the lion's share of Timor Sea oil fields, an allegation Australia has denied.
		East Timor argues that the sea border between the two should be at the middle of the 375 miles of sea between the countries, in line with international laws.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3731129.stm (675 words)

	Crucial Timor Sea oil talks collapse - National - www.theage.com.au
		Critical talks over the rich Timor Sea oil and gas reserves have broken down, creating a potential crisis for East Timor and putting in doubt lucrative Australian projects.
		Timor demanded that Woodside build a pipeline to process the natural gas in Dili, instead of Darwin as planned.
		Australia rejects Timor's claims that the sea boundary should be halfway between the two countries and has withdrawn from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which could be used to challenged the initial Timor Sea Treaty signed in May 2002.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/10/27/1098667834622.html (497 words)

	Timor Sea Oil and East Timor-Australia relations
		The Timor Gap is to be East Timor’s main source of revenue for the next 20 years.
		The contested area of sea came to be known as the "Timor Gap", the boundaries of which were the result of agreement between Australia and Indonesia, since Timor itself was never heard.
		If Timor gained independence, Indonesia’s rights would simply be transferred to East Timor, he said, adding that he had discussed the issue with Xanana Gusmão (in a Jakarta jail at the time).
	homepage.esoterica.pt /~cdpm/oil01eng.htm (2544 words)

	CNN.com - Timor Sea methanol project a step closer - Jan. 6, 2003
		The Tassie Shoal is an area of shallow water in the Timor Sea near the giant Evans Shoal gas field, 275 kilometers (170 miles) north of Darwin.
		However, a report in The Australian newspaper on Tuesday said it was within the 200 nautical mile boundary that East Timor is entitled to claim under international law as its area of economic importance.
		East Timor, the newest independent nation in the region, is looking for economic benefit from the oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, but has had little luck so far.
	www.cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/asia/01/06/aust.methanol.biz (565 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Dispute over Timor Sea resources intensifies
		Downer denied the decision was linked to the Timor Sea issue but reports said it was made after a weekend seminar in Dili, the capital of East Timor.
		It was Australia that appealed Indonesia in 1998 to hold a referendum which led to the independence of East Timor, and led the international forces rushing into the newly independent country in 1999 when pro-Indonesian militants uprose.
		East Timor's chief negotiator Mari Alkatiri said, while Australians self-comforted saying that though the arrangement gives the East Timorese access and control over at least $ 3.5 bn in revenue over 30 years, it will reduce the potential call on Australia for aid funds to keep that country afloat as an independent nation.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cns21636.htm (483 words)

	East Timor
		East Timor is located in the eastern part of Timor, an island in the Indonesian archipelago that lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
		East Timor's resistance movement was violently suppressed by Indonesian military forces, and more than 200,000 Timorese were reported to have died from famine, disease, and fighting since the annexation.
		East Timor's offshore gas and oil reserves promised the only real hope for lifting it out of poverty, but a dispute with Australia over the rights to the oil reserves in the East Timor Sea thwarted those efforts.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0902237.html (1093 words)

	APCET Submission on the Review of Timor Sea Agreements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		We are therefore pleased that your committee is inquiring into the Timor Sea agreements, as the treaties have critical importance for East Timor's future self-determination.
		We believe that the Timor Sea Treaty (May 2002) and the Exchange of Notes between East Timor and Australia (Timor Sea) (May 2002) has put East Timor in a bad position because it will ultimately lose up to 60 percent of its oil and gas resources.
		The East Timor government believed signing the treaty at the earliest possible time would quicken its hold over the resources and the revenues that would help its economy.
	www.iidnet.org /adv/timor/sea_agree.htm (477 words)

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