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" 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."
DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE
➡ 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.
➡ land beside or near to the sea or ocean
➡ 1) to cut off the fins (from a fish). The practice of removing fins and discarding the carcass, usually pertaining to sharks. 2) of a marine animal) to show fins above the water — Saw was frightened as the sharks finned around the boat
➡ a thin, flat appendage on the body of a fish or other aquatic animal that helps manoeuvre the body through the water.
➡ connected with ships, sailors and sailing, seamanship, marine navigation.
➡ a unit used in measuring distances at sea, equal to 1,852 metres (approximately 2,025 yards), or one minute of arc along the Earth’s equator.
➡ the salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands
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