"تقرير عسكري عن شواطئ الجزيرة العربية المطلة على الخليج الفارسي، البحرين، الأحساء، قطر، عُمان المتصالحة وعُمان" [‎١‎٥] (٢٢٦/٢٩)

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CHAP. II. GEOGRAPHY KUWAIT. 15
CHAPTER II.
GEOGRAPHY, CLIMATE AND HEALTH.
Kuwait.
1. lioiuidaries. —The frontier fixed in 1920-23 between
Kuwait and Nejd starts from the junction of the VVadi-al-
Auiah with the Batin in the west; running thence (leaving
Riqai to Nejd) in a straight line to the junction of the
29th parallel of latitude with the arc of a semicircle having
Kuwait as centre and a radius of 42 miles; thence follow-
incr the semicircle to a point immediately south of Kas-al-
Oaliva This forms the southern boundary of the recog
nized territory of Kuw«it. The frontier between Kuwait
and Iraq starts from the junction of adi-al-Aujah and
the Batin, thence northwards following the centre line ot
the Batin, curving eastwards south of Safwan (leaving
Safwan to Iraq), and then south-east to the head ot Khm-as-
Sabiva; whence it follows the northern shore of Khor
Abdulla until it reaches a point opposite the eastern end
of Warba Island. Tt then follows the centre of K1 | or
Abdulla to the open sea including the Island oi Warba,
Bubiyan, Mashtan, Failaka, Auhah, Kubbar, Qaru and
IT itim-al - M a r a dim. Failaka only is inhabited; it has one
village called Zoc and a few settlements.
The tract of country bounded on the north by the
southern boundary of Kuwait, on the east by the sea,
on the south by a straight line running eastwards from
the Shaqq through Ain-al-Abd to the sea north of Ras-
Misha'ab and on the west by the Shaqq, 18 recognised as
common to the two states of Kuwait and Ne]d until
such time as a fresh agreement be arrived at between
them.
The Iraq neutral area (Tawal Adh Dhafir) is an area in
the shape of a parallelogram having its north, south, east
and west angles at Al-Amghar, A1 TJqubba, a point m the
vicinity of Ar Rigai, and Ansab.
I^ ote .—Prior to the "1923 Frontier Agreement " the
Sheikh of Kuwait was the recognised overlord and entitled
to levy tribute over a much larger area. This area in
cluded in the west the line of the Batm to the wells ot
- Hafar inclusive. It then turned south-east and included
the wells of Safa, Qar'aa, Haba and Warba; the village