evidence: Saint Martin’s Island is a small but geopolitically significant coral island located in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal. With a surface area of just 3 square kilometers, it is situated approximately 9 kilometers south of the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf peninsula in Bangladesh and about 8 kilometers west of the Myanmar coast at the mouth of the Naf River. [...] • Historical Background: The island was originally an extension of the Teknaf peninsula but became separated, forming an independent landmass. It was included as part of British India in 1900 and became part of Bangladesh after its independence in 1971. The island’s ownership was officially recognized as Bangladeshi territory in a 1974 agreement with Myanmar.