Bioceanic principle

The difference between the two countries was the subject of diplomatic disagreements during most of the second half of the 20th century.

The arbitral tribunal that ruled on the Beagle conflict in 1977, after a study of the arguments presented by both countries between 1971 and 1977, when the criterion was formally developed by Argentina, issued a judgment that declared such principle non-existent.

Argentina declared the arbitration ruling of the judges null and void and planned a military operation at the end of the decade.

Argentina understood that its essential form was made explicit on May 1, 1893, in the additional and clarifying protocol of the 1881 treaty, postulating that in its American territories Chile cannot claim any point towards the Atlantic Ocean, while Argentina cannot claim it towards the Pacific Ocean.

[3] Currently the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Argentina and Chile leaves the islands Picton, Nueva, Lennox, Terhalten, Bernavelt, Hornos, Deceit and other with eastern coasts under Chilean sovereignty.