Book Shelf

VII. The continental shelf

Definition of the continental shelf

He placed the book on the shelf.

The bottle is on the upper shelf.

To the south lies the European continental shelf and the North Sea, to the east is the Eurasian continental shelf with the Barents Sea.

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

My father made a shelf for me.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

In other words, I ve taken off the shelf components, and I ve made a spectroscope.

Most of Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand.

Its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, which is currently under examination by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is estimated to be 953,525 square kilometres.

However, there are no fixed platforms operating in the Exclusive Economic Zone Continental shelf of Mauritius.

Indeed, without implementation, the recommendations will only gather dust on the shelf.

Last year, Australia lodged with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf its submission on the outer limit of the shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline.

Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf states that the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .

The islands are located in the South Atlantic Ocean, on the Patagonian Shelf, about east of Patagonia in southern Argentina.

In its judgment in the North Sea Continental Shelf cases, the International Court of Justice also refers to the Truman Proclamation

We are pleased to note the progress in the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

And donor blood must be kept in cold storage, where it has a 28 day shelf life.

Information reported by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

We note the important work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Reference was made to the Truman Proclamation in one case considered by the Court, the North Sea Continental Shelf case.

It also bought a large majority of BP's Gulf of Mexico Shelf properties.

Fiji is mindful of all its obligations under the Convention, in particular those relating to the limits of the continental shelf.

If that happens, withdrawal plans will be returned to the shelf probably for many years.

(i) Mr. Peter F. Croker, Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

The contingency plan remained on the shelf because of the lack of casualties among Israeli civilians.

2. The continental shelf of a coastal State shall not extend beyond the limits provided for in paragraphs 4 to 6.

Statement by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on the progress of work in the Commission

In 1994 Calgene attained approval to commercially release the Flavr Savr tomato, a tomato engineered to have a longer shelf life.

We note with satisfaction the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Some of these rascals are indeed, to put it gently, past their shelf life.

From my perspective, today s off the shelf computer programs come awfully close to meeting Turing s test.

Each cheese and the shelf underneath it is then cleaned manually or robotically every seven days.

In that regard, we would like to reiterate that India has the requisite expertise for assessment and mapping of the continental shelf.

I was interested in what was going on in the bag, the bag on the toy store shelf where those shrimp sat in suspended animation indefinitely.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf

The ice drilling project on the north eastern corner of the Amery ice shelf near Davis Station continued.

My delegation welcomes the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in considering the submissions of several coastal States.

It's a horrific story. Someone took a bottle of Tylenol, put poison in it, closed it up, put it back on the shelf.

Modus operandi for the consideration of a submission made to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

Kuwait is also party to the Protocol concerning Marine Pollution Resulting from Exploration and Exploitation of the Continental Shelf.

7. The coastal State shall delineate the outer limits of its continental shelf, where that shelf extends beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, by straight lines not exceeding 60 nautical miles in length, connecting fixed points, defined by coordinates of latitude and longitude.

At its end, the participants demonstrated a general understanding of the process and procedures involved in the delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf.