Terminology record for bay
RECORD
| Record No.: | 114/en/209 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2022-11-23 00:00:00 |
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| TERM | * Bay status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | ||||||||||||
| PLURAL | Bays ; | ||||||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Late Middle English: from Old French baie, from Old Spanish bahia, of unknown origin. | ||||||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | ||||||||||||
| DEFINITION |
An area of the sea or a large lake, partly surrounded by a wide curve of land.
In international fisheries law, it is a well-marked indentation whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast, with its area as large as, or larger than, that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation. | ||||||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea | ||||||||||||
| USAGE EXAMPLE | 1. " For the purposes of this Convention, a bay is a well-marked indentation whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast. An indentation shall not, however, be regarded as a bay unless its area is as large as, or larger than, that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation. " (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 2); 2. " Where the distance between the low-water marks of the natural entrance points of a bay exceeds 24 nautical miles, a straight baseline of 24 nautical miles shall be drawn within the bay in such a manner as to enclose the maximum area of water that is possible with a line of that length. " ( United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 5) | ||||||||||||
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. Legal instruments related to: Bay |
Continent: International
Country: All Countries 🌍1. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part 2, Section 2, Article 10, Paragraph 1: 🌍
1. This article relates only to bays the coasts of which belong to a single State. 📑Read more
