Definition of the continental shelf

Book Shelf

VII. The continental shelf

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

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.

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.

My father made a shelf for me.

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.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

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 .

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.

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

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

(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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Chairman of the Commission had invited representatives of GRID Arendal to make a presentation of its continental shelf facility.

(b) Desktop study or other means to make an assessment of the nature of the continental shelf and its limits

The course covered the legal, procedural and scientific aspects of the process of delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf.

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

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

Notification of the receipt of a submission and publication of the proposed outer limits of the continental shelf related to the submission

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

The limits of the shelf established by a coastal State on the basis of these recommendations shall be final and binding.

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

And Orion is really one of the only, if not the only, off the shelf technologies that could do something.

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

Voters will learn to compromise, replacing tailor made niche parties with a couple of solid off the shelf options.

(b) Desktop study or other means to make an initial assessment of the nature of the continental shelf and its limits

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.

The Commission shall make recommendations to coastal States on matters related to the establishment of the outer limits of their continental shelf.

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

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