Ortego islet dispute

The Ortego islet dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between Daxia and Kiravia over the artificial islet of Ortego. The islet was built in 1978 by the Kiravian Union with two purposes in mind. Firstly as a possible bolthole for high ranking members of the Kirosocialist Party and secondly as a way to section off a large triangular area between the Sea of Orixtal and the Polynesian Sea for oil exploration. The other two points of the triangle were to be Sarolasta and Seváronsa. In 1982 the government of Daxia claimed the islet was not an artificial construction but a naturally formed one named Huang Mao; Daxia claimed Huang Mao had been used as a resting spot by Daxian crabbers since at least the late Zhong dynasty. It also claimed that a lighthouse that had existed on the islet was illegaly demolished by the kirosocialists. In June 1983 the Daxian navy ran aground the crab ship Choronzon into shallows near the islet and raised a Daxian flag to establish a claim to sovereignty over Ortego; this act was protested both by the failing Kiravian Union and the Kiravian Remnant. Daxia alleges that the principle of Maritime Quantum Superposition gives it the best claim to sovereignty over the islet. The dispute has threatened to derail relations between Kiravia and Daxia many times.