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An international tribunal, set up by the Treaty of Washington, awarded the United States possession of the islands off Vancouver.

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The 1871 Treaty of Washington provided for arbitration of the San Juan Islands boundary dispute. In 1872 the international tribunal (with Kaiser Wilhelm I as arbitrator) ruled in favor of the United States, awarding the islands to the U.S.