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[[Guyana]]'s and Barbados's offshore territorial claims overlap, and are also disputed with Venezuela,<ref>[https://notesfromthemargin.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/how-trinidad-recognised-venezuelas-claim-to-most-of-guyanas-land/ How Trinidad Recognised Venezuela’s Claim to Most Of Guyana’s Land] 18 June 2007, Notes From The Margin</ref> which itself claims ownership of the waters overlapping the first two.<ref>[https://notesfromthemargin.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/marginal-picks-up-his-pen-venezuelas-claim-of-barbados-waters/ Marginal Picks Up His Pen – Venezuelas Claim of Barbados’ Waters] 16 June 2008, Notes From The Margin</ref> In 2008 Barbados sought to place the oil blocks on open market for oil exploration tender but faced a challenge by Venezuela's government in [[Caracas]].<ref>[http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/07/28/en_eco_art_ngo-reports-barbados_28A1843999.shtml NGO reports Barbados is bidding oil blocks in Venezuelan waters] 28 July 2008, El Universal</ref>
 
In 2006 a local Barbadian group purporting to represent descendants of indigenous Caribbean peoples announced its claim to [[Culpepper Island]], a small rocky outcrop on the eastern shore of Barbados.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.pantribalconfederacy.com/confederacy/reclamation/ |title="The Reclamation of Culpepper Island by the Lokono-Arawak and Karifuna-Carib Nations"] |access-date=2011-05-27 |archive-date=2008-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509061842/http://www.pantribalconfederacy.com/confederacy/reclamation/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
== Notes ==