Terra nullius
International law term for unclaimed land / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a region of land that is not claimed by any party. For a region separating warring parties, see No man's land. For the book, see Terra Nullius (Coleman novel).
Terra nullius (/ˈtɛrə ˈnʌlɪəs/,[1] plural terrae nullius) is a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land".[2] Since the nineteenth century it has occasionally been used in international law as a principle to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it.[lower-alpha 1][4] There are currently three territories sometimes claimed to be terra nullius: Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute, and parts of Antarctica, principally Marie Byrd Land.