Why Does Alaska Have THIS Strip?

Alaska has a thin tail of coast that runs down Canada's side and cuts off its whole northwest corner from the Pacific. It isn't there by accident. Britain agreed to it with Russia in 1825. Then in 1903, a British judge cast the deciding vote that kept it unbroken. 0:00 Why does Alaska have this strip? 0:48 The Strip 2:07 Sold 4:01 Gold 5:29 Six Impartial Jurists 6:40 20 October 1903 7:58 The Better Case 9:15 The Line Isn't Finished Sources: the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1825 (Arts. III–IV); the Hay–Herbert Convention, 24 Jan 1903 (FRUS 1903, doc. 479); the Alaska Boundary Tribunal award, 20 Oct 1903 (UN Reports of International Arbitral Awards, vol. XV); Office of the Historian and the National Archives on the 1867 purchase; Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Sifton, Jetté); The Canadian Encyclopedia; NPS, Klondike Gold Rush NHP; Parks Canada; HistoryLink essay 9152 (the 1923 Halibut Treaty); H. L. Keenleyside, Canada and the United States*; Gray, "Canada's Unresolved Maritime Boundaries", *Geomatica (1994).