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    continental shelf." The convention was ratified by all four states in dispute over the Rockall Plateau – Iceland on 26 January 1985, Ireland on 21 January 1996...
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    Faroe Islands (a possession of Denmark). This topic is addressed in Rockall Bank dispute. The area supports cold-water coral colonies and carbonate mound...
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    Rockall (/ˈrɒkɔːl/) is an uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. The United Kingdom claims that Rockall lies within its territorial...
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    'reclaims' Europe's highest mountain". Independent. "Who owns Rockall? A history of disputes over a tiny Atlantic island". The Irish Times. 8 June 2019....
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    sharing agreement over Rockall, but as yet no other agreements exist with Iceland or Denmark. The Icesave dispute was a dispute between Iceland and the...
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    September 1955: Britain claims Rockall". On This Day. BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. "Island Of Rockall Act 1972" (PDF). legislation.gov...
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  • British Isles after Great Britain and Ireland) Orkney Mainland pig Shetland Rockall Hiort or Hirta Boreray (disambiguation) Stac Lee Vatersay Eriskay Grimsay...
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    to have annexed that area. On 18 September 1955 at precisely 10:16 am, Rockall was declared officially annexed by the British Crown when Lieutenant-Commander...
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  • the other hand, concerning claims to the continental shelf in the Hatton–Rockall area of the North Atlantic under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea...
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    Quality of Life survey. Rockall is a small rocky islet in the North Atlantic which was declared part of Scotland by the Island of Rockall Act 1972. However...
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    Iceland and Faroes Grounds; Rockall, Northwest Coast of Scotland, and North Ireland; Irish Sea, West of Ireland, Porcupine Bank, and eastern and western...
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    and Galloway West: Either Rockall (annexed in 1972 to the former Inverness-shire), the international status of which is disputed, or Soay, St. Kilda, Western...
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  • annexes Rockall (by the Island of Rockall Act 1972, declaring it to be part of Scotland). Ireland does not recognise the UK's territorial claim to Rockall. 12...
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    Bofors scandal (category All accuracy disputes)
    Lt Gen E. A.; Kathpalia, Lt Gen P. N.; Bakshi, G. D.; Kanwal, Gurmeet; Rockall, George; Kaushik, Brig O. P.; Saksena, Col K. P.; Tiwathia, Maj Vijay;...
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  • Islands, controlled by the United Kingdom but claimed by Argentina. The dispute escalated into the Falklands War in 1982 over the islands' sovereignty...
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  • September 2019. "Army veteran aims to set new world record for longest stay on Rockall". BBC News. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023. "It's Good to Be King"...
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    Unresolved boundary disputed between Canada and Denmark (The state of Denmark is responsible for Greenland's foreign relations). This dispute flared up again...
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    Irish News. 28 September 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2023. (For map, see Rockall). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom...
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    Orkney and Shetland, the Hebrides and, by virtue of the Island of Rockall Act 1972, Rockall. "United Kingdom" means Great Britain and Northern Ireland and...
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  • that is excluded in the other for various reasons, including territorial disputes. There is intentional overlap among the lists in order to maximize ease...
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    he discovered and charted Vidal bank, and the next year became the first to accurately chart and describe Rockall. Vidal sailed aboard HMS Aetna in...
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    men of Ness. The status of Rockall, which is 367 kilometres (228 mi) to the west of North Uist and which the Island of Rockall Act 1972 decreed to be a...
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    Marine plastic pollution (category Accuracy disputes from January 2018)
    subtidal sediments. A 2017 study had a similar finding – by surveying the Rockall Trough in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean at a depth of more than 2200 meters...
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    feature is Inishtrahull island, off Malin Head. Rockall Island lies farther north but its status is disputed, being claimed by the United Kingdom, Republic...
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    Royal prerogative in the United Kingdom (category All accuracy disputes)
    has the power to annex territory, as was done in 1955 with the island of Rockall. Once territory has been annexed, the monarch has complete discretion as...
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    North Atlantic right whale (category All accuracy disputes)
    have also been recorded from pelagic waters such as off Hebrides and on Rockall Basin. In July 2024, one was spotted off the coast of County Donegal. Right...
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  • Vas, Lt Gen EA; Kathpalia, Lt Gen PN; Bakshi, G. D.; Kanwal, Gurmeet; Rockall, George; Kaushik, Brig OP; Saksena, Col KP; Tiwathia, Maj Vijay; Joshi...
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    Appeal Act 1995 s 16 e.g. the Island of Rockall was seized in 1955, and later recognised in the Island of Rockall Act 1972. See R (Lye) v Kent JJ [1967]...
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  • airspace and maritime territory are included only when they are subject to a dispute. Timeline of national independence – List of countries by year of independence...
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