Oregon boundary dispute 'detached territory option'

RyanF

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I was reading up on the boundary dispute today and discovered this image on wikipedia:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/OrBoundaryMapDetached.jpg (image too large to post)

The image had the accompanying description: 'An undated map showing the detached territory option proposed by the British, with the Olympic Peninsula as part of the US and the north bank of the Columbia part of the British Empire'.

This supposed option was mentioned nowhere else in the actual article and I have tried finding further info online but I haven't been able to find anything.

What I was wondering is if anyone could please provide further information on this, if at least to confirm whether or not such an option did exist (this is wikipedia after all!). And if it did exist why it was proposed and was it even considered?

Thanks in advance.
 
I hadn't heard of such a proposal before, neither can I find find anything about it aside from the above mentioned map. Perhaps it has something to do w/the Indian tribes living on the peninsula - I don't know.
 
If you look at the discussion for the article, and search for "detached", you'll see a little bit more on this.

Not only did they propose the Columbia boundary, but they also then proposed a rather odd solution to the US demands for ports. They proposed a detached tract of land amounting to basically the Olympic Peninsula for the US to have the harbors they demanded. This is covered on page 71 of the Merk book and I have seen it numerous other places, including on the back cover of A General History of Oregon, by Charles Henry Carey (1936), where there is a map showing this proposed triangle of detached land.

The Merk book referred to appears earlier in the discussion: "Albert Gallatin and the Oregon Problem: A Study in Anglo-American Diplomacy, by Frederick Merk, Harvard University Press, 1950"
 
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