Indonesia–Malaysia border

strait between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra

Interisland Sea in the Pacific Ocean

Sipadan () is the only oceanic island in Malaysia, rising from the seabed. It is located in the Celebes Sea off the east coast of Sabah, Malaysia. It was formed by living corals growing on top of an extinct volcanic cone that took thousands of years to develop. Sipadan is located at the heart of the Indo-Pacific basin, the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world. More than 400 species of fish and hundreds of coral species have been classified in this ecosystem. The island sits within Sipadan Island Park, a marine park encompassing 16,860 hectares and managed by Sabah Parks.

1824 treaty

Ligitan () is a small island in Tawau, Sabah, located east of the island of Borneo, in the Celebes Sea. In the past, the island was at the centre of a territorial dispute between Malaysia and Indonesia. The matter was brought for adjudication before the International Court of Justice and, at the end of 2002, the Court awarded the island along with the island of Sipadan to Malaysia, on the basis of the "effective occupation" displayed by the latter's predecessor (Malaysia's former colonial power, Great Britain) and the absence of any other superior title. The Philippines had applied to interven

international border

Ambalat is a sea block in the Celebes Sea located off the east coast of Borneo. It lies to the south-east of the Malaysian state of Sabah and to the east of the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, and it is the subject of a territorial dispute between the two nations. Malaysia refers to part of the Ambalat block as Block ND6 (formerly Block Y) and part of East Ambalat Block as Block ND7 (formerly Block Z). The deep sea blocks contain an estimated of oil and 348 million cubic meters of natural gas. Other estimates place it substantially higher: of oil and 3.96 × 1010 cubic meters (1.4 tril

mountain in Malaysia

mountain in Malaysia

territorial dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia