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Machias Seal Island is the last piece of land officially contested between the United States and Canada
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The last piece of land officially contested between the United States and Canada, a rocky outcropping in the Bay of Fundy called Machias Seal Island, has popped up in the news this week, delighting us lovers of bizarre legal abstractions. New Brunswick Senator Jim Quinn, a retired Coast Guard sailor and a former boss of the port of Saint John, is