...involved (art. 60) . Continental Shelf. — The Continental Shelf was defined by article 62 as comprising the natural prolongation of the land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin. Alternatively, it could be defined as extending to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the...

...passage" admitted to all other kinds of straits. The continental shelf has been extended "throughout the natural prolongation of the land territory" to the outer edge of the continental margin or to a distance of "200 nautical miles from the baseline . . .". The special claims of archipelagic...

...demonstrate the types of Issues that would have to be carefully considered and worked out when defining-.the inner limit of this bill's application. HR 5464's...artifically restricts the seabed of the United States. Me are working with the Departments of State and of Commerce on the issue. Additionally, any standard...

...of 200 and a maximum of 350 nautical miles or 100 nautical miles from the 2,500 meter 29 isobath hut only as far as the "natural prolongation of the land...is not consistent with the definition contained in Article 76 of the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Convention. In addition, this definition artifically...

...minimum of 200 and a maximum of 350 nautical miles or 100 nautical miles from the 2,500 meter isobath hut only as far as the "natural prolongation of the land...is not consistent with the definition contained in Article 76 of the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Convention. In addition, this definition artifically...

...essentially the "national area" of the sea-bed and subsoil extending beyond the territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of the land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin (or to a distance of 200 nautical miles). 12.3 The UN Convention further elaborates on the definition...

...continental shelf was replaced by the 1982 Convention. According to Art 76.1, the continental shelf is "the prolongation of the land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial...

...comprises the sea-bed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond the territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of the land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nm from the baseline of the territorial sea where the outer edge of...

...said areas.36 According to UNCLOS the continental shelf comprises the said submarine areas throughout the natural prolongation of the land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles where the outer edge of the continental margin does...

...the sea-bed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the prolongation of the land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial...