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U.S. Law Of The Sea Cruise To Map The Eastern Mendocino Ridge, Eastern Pacific Ocean, James V. Gardner, Mashkoor A. Malik
U.S. Law Of The Sea Cruise To Map The Eastern Mendocino Ridge, Eastern Pacific Ocean, James V. Gardner, Mashkoor A. Malik
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
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Mapping In The Arctic Ocean In Support Of A Potential Extended Continental Shelf, Larry A. Mayer, Andy Armstrong, James V. Gardner
Mapping In The Arctic Ocean In Support Of A Potential Extended Continental Shelf, Larry A. Mayer, Andy Armstrong, James V. Gardner
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Under Article 76 of The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS; U.N. 1997), coastal states may, under certain circumstances, gain sovereign rights over the resources of the seafloor and subsurface of “submerged extensions of their continental margin” beyond the recognized 200 nautical mile (nmi) limit of their Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The establishment of an “extended continental shelf” (ECS) under Article 76 involves the demonstration that the area of the ECS is a “natural prolongation” of a coastal state’s territorial landmass and then the application of a series of formulae and limit lines that are based …