Unoccupied Territory?

Question

When I was a child, I remember seeing on my globes and maps that there was a region which was always colored white, and marked as "Unoccupied Territory" or "Neutral Zone" or something like that. It was roughly diamond-shaped and somewhere in the middle east, I think. Does anyone remember this and do you know what it was, is, or why it's not on maps anymore? As a kid I wondered about it, but back then we didn't have the research tools we have now, and nobody knew what it was. This would have been in the 70s and 80s...

No I'm not talking about Antarctica. It's the Saudi-Iraqi Neutral Zone...

Answer 1

quote from samizdat link
check out map @ antique-hangups.com link

"In 1922 British officials concluded the Treaty of Mohammara with Abd al Aziz ibn Abd ar Rahman Al Saud, who in 1932 formed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The treaty provided the basic agreement for the boundary between the eventually
independent nations. Also in 1922 the two parties agreed to the creation of the diamond-shaped Neutral Zone of approximately 7,500 square kilometers adjacent to the western tip of Kuwait in which neither Iraq nor Saudi Arabia would build
permanent dwellings or installations. Beduins from either country
could utilize the limited water and seasonal grazing resources of the zone. In April 1975, an agreement signed in Baghdad fixed the borders of the countries. Despite a rumored agreement providing for the formal division of the Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone, as of early 1988 such a document had not been published.
Instead, Saudi Arabia was continuing to control oil wells in the offshore Neutral Zone and had been allocating proceeds from Neutral Zone oil sales to Iraq as a war payment."

Answer 2

There were two such zones that used to be between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Those two nations have since agreed on an unambiguous boundary between them.

Answer 3

I think it has to do with Saudi Arabia and their production of oil.

Answer 4

not the middle east..it is near the south pole....