Did anyone answer the Alaska boundary question?

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In the late 1700 the Czar claimed the boundary as the top of Vancouver island eastward and in 1825 Russia and Britain signed a treaty to define the borders of their respective colonial possessions giving Russia the panhandle down to the bottom of what is now Prince of Wales island.

When the United States bought Alaska in 1867 the map of the territory they purchased did not reflect the settlement established in 1825 and British Columbia united with Canada in 1871, wanted a survey, but it was refused by the United States as too costly: the border area was very remote and sparsely-settled, and without economic or strategic interest at the time.
The Klondike Gold increased the importance of the region and the desirability of fixing an exact boundary.. Finally, in 1903, the Hay-Herbert Treaty entrusted the decision to an arbitration by a mixed tribunal of six members, three American and three Canadian/British.
The main legal points at issue were which coastal range should be chosen as the basis of the boundary and whether the "ten marine leagues" (or 30 nautical miles) should be measured from the heads of the fjords or from a baseline which would cut across the mouths of the fjords.
The British arbitration board member Lord Alverstone sided with the United States position on these basic issues — though the final agreed demarcation line fell significantly short of the maximal U.S. claim (it was a compromise falling roughly between the maximal U.S. and maximal British/Canadian claim). Canada was, however, entitled to a consolation prize of triangle of land at the top of the Panhandle.