The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Vietnam filed a claim to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend the limits of its underwater continental shelf in the ...

“Argentina will not exercise these rights over territories and maritime spaces which the United Kingdom is administrating unilaterally since 1833”, said Foradori. The twenty year effort took off under ...

The Argentine submission Ambassador Foradori and advisors during the presentation on March 28 By Professor Peter Willetts, South Atlantic Council (*) - The Argentine Foreign Ministry announced on 28 ...

With Shell receiving conditional approval to drill in the Chukchi Sea in offshore Alaska, the phrase “continental shelf” has come up a lot lately. The term also appears whenever territorial disputes ...

Canada plans to submit its Arctic continental shelf claim in 2018 and it is expected to include the North Pole, overlapping with both Russian and Danish submissions that also claim ownership of the ...

Since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; about 21,000 years ago) sea level has risen by 130 meters (430 feet), resulting in continental shelf submergence and a massive expansion of the surface area of ...

The rights to the continental shelf off all Malaysia’s coasts, including Sarawak’s, belong exclusively to Petronas by virtue of the Petroleum Development Act 1974 and not to the states themselves, ...

A recent expedition off Ireland’s continental shelf has revealed a truly enormous submarine canyon the depth of 10 Eiffel Towers. With nearly all of the world’s landmasses mapped in minute detail by ...

On April 16, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that raises familiar questions of federalism and statutory interpretation as applied in an unusual setting, to a platform anchored to the ...