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The extended continental shelf, [1] [2] scientific continental shelf, [1] [2] or outer continental shelf, [3] refers to a type of maritime area, established as a geo-legal paradigm by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational maritime disputes ...
Vietnam has filed a claim with the United Nations for an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a month after regional neighbor the Philippines made a similar move, Vietnam's ...
Map of the dispute. The dispute over the extended continental shelf in the Southern Zone Sea between Argentina and Chile [1] [2] is a disagreement between the two countries over a maritime area of 5,302 km² that began after Argentina attempted to extend its maritime space based on the theory of the extended continental shelf over the Southern Zone Sea (Spanish: Mar de la Zona Austral), [3 ...
As defined by the UNCLOS, states have ten years from the date of ratification to make claims to an extended continental shelf.They must present to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, a UN body, geological evidence that their shelf effectively extends beyond the 200 nautical miles limit but no more than an additional 150 nautical miles or 100 nautical miles from the 2500 ...
Under the 1982 U.N. convention, a coastal state could have exclusive rights to exploit resources in its continental shelf, a vast stretch of seabed that can extend up to 350 nautical miles (648 ...
UNCLOS sea areas. The first attempt to promulgate and codify a comprehensive law of the sea was in the 1950s, shortly after the Truman proclamation on the continental shelf. In 1956, the United Nations held its first Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I) in Geneva, Switzerland, which resulted in four treaties concluded in 1958: [15]
The World Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by Nicaragua seeking to define and expand its deep sea economic rights beyond those previously established in a long-running maritime border dispute ...