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Montserrat
| Location |
In the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, between E Caribbean Sea, N Atlantic Ocean, N of Guadeloupe |
| Latitude and longitude |
16 45 N, 62 12 W |
| Sovereignty |
United Kingdom |
| Population |
6,409 |
| Census notes |
est. July 2000 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
102 |
| Capital |
Plymouth |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| The
Montserrat Constitution Order 1989, United Kingdom Statutory Instrument 1989
No. 2401, from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, |
| British
Overseas Territories Act 2002, on the ISLAND LAW website |
Other legal documents online
|
|
Eastern
Caribbean Supreme Court judgments |
| United States Department of Homeland Security, Termination of the Designation of Montserrat Under the Temporary
Protected Status Program, 69 Federal Register 40642 (July 6,
2004) (ending temporary protected status for refugees from volcanic
eruptions because eruptions can no longer be considered temporary) |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| Constitutional
Modernisation in Montserrat and the Cayman Islands: Taking the British
Seriously?, by Howard A. Fergus (2003) |
| LLRX.Com, Guide
to Caribbean Law Research, by Yemisi Dina |
| United Nations Secretariat, Working
Paper on Montserrat, prepared for the Special Committee of the
U.N. General Assembly on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation
of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries
and Peoples (A/AC.109/2004/13, March 31, 2004) (PDF) |
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