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" Where a low-tide elevation is wholly situated at a distance exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or an island, it has no territorial sea of its own."
DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE
➡ a naturally formed offshore land feature (such as mudflat, shoal, rock, or reef ) within a distance of not more than 12 nautical miles from the low-water line of the mainland or an island, which is surrounded by water and visible at low tide but submerged at high tide.
➡ the salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands
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