➡ baseline joining the outermost points of the outermost islands and drying reefs of an archipelago. It does not exceed 100 nautical miles, except that up to 3 per cent of the total number of baselines enclosing any archipelago may exceed that length, up to a maximum length of 125 nautical mile.

➡ line along the coast of a coastal State as marked on large-scale charts officially recognised by the coastal State which acts as the starting point for measuring the breadth of the sea around a coastal state.

➡ zone contiguous to its territorial sea which may not extend beyond 24 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

➡ Abbreviation for Exclusive Economic Zone (defined in the Law of the Sea Convention).

➡ A species that lives in midwater or close to the surface.

➡ the salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands