Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous...
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"International waters" is not a defined term in international law. It is an informal term, which sometimes refers to waters beyond the "territorial sea" of any...
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The territorial waters of Indonesia are defined according to the principles set out in Article 46 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea...
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List of fatal shark attacks in South Africa (redirect from List of fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters)
This is a list of recorded fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters, in reverse chronological order, including cases that were immediately...
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Strait of Gibraltar (section Territorial waters)
(980 and 2,950 feet; 160 and 490 fathoms). The strait lies in the territorial waters of Morocco, Spain, and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar...
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(370 km) from the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured. Whaling in Australian Antarctic territorial waters is controversial and has received international...
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firearms and petrol bombs. In 1987, the United Kingdom extended its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, which places the platform in British territory...
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stations broadcasting to Israel were operating from within Israeli territorial waters under a strange arrangement that attempted to prevent intrusion by...
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coastal and territorial waters for the United States but exclude coastal and territorial waters for China. China's coastal and territorial water figures...
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water area. The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters. Glaciers and intermittent bodies of water are...
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Law of the Sea, a nation's internal waters include waters on the side of the baseline of a nation's territorial waters that is facing toward the land, except...
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Cornish coast of England on 20 October 1984. On 19 October, in Irish territorial waters off the coast of County Wexford, the Sonia had been spotted by the...
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Archipelagic state (redirect from Archipelagic waters)
Indonesia consider their archipelagic waters to be more sovereign that the territorial waters and closer to the internal waters. The approval of the United Nations...
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territory or part of a larger one. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters.: 60 Enclave is sometimes used improperly to denote a territory that...
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Danish waters with tacit British acceptance, despite the fact that Denmark was obliged under international law to keep its territorial waters open. The...
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Neutral waters is a legal term from international laws of war, that refers to territorial waters of a state which maintains neutrality respective to the...
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New Zealand's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers at least 4,083,744 square kilometres (1,576,742 sq mi), which is approximately 15 times the land area...
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for the land area of the bank, and does not include the surrounding territorial waters. This figure includes the total land area of the Serranilla Bank and...
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Territorial disputes have occurred throughout history, over lands around the world. Bold indicates one claimant's full control; italics indicates one...
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Gough Island is wetter and has freezing winter temperatures. The territorial waters of the islands extend out to 12 nautical miles (22 km) from their...
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territorial waters, exclusive economic zones, or the high seas. The law of the sea regulates these limits. Most MPAs have been located in territorial...
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century. The modern disputes began in 1952 after Iceland expanded its territorial waters from 3 to 4 nautical miles (7 kilometres). The United Kingdom responded...
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waters are international waters. Generally, a state's exclusive economic zone is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, extending seaward to...
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to denote coastal waters which are not Territorial Waters though in immediate contact with the sea. In the case of Territorial Waters, the dominion of...
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in international waters, and within Soviet territorial waters to the north of Moneron Island. The area within Soviet territorial waters was off-limits to...
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entered Iranian territorial waters after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits. The...
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underlying the ocean within the territorial waters or continental shelf or exclusive economic zone of India. The territorial waters, continental shelf, exclusive...
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in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places and has a long troubled history with...
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to delimit precisely the territorial waters boundary in accordance with the Straits Settlement and Johore Territorial Waters Agreement 1927 as being straight...
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carrying out covert amphibious operations close to North Vietnamese territorial waters, which triggered a response from North Vietnamese forces. The United...
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