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Terminology record for low-tide elevation

RECORD

Record No.:	226/en/413
Author:	ELAD D. F.
Creation date:	2022-3-10
Last updated:	2025-02-17 21:57:24

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DOMAINE

Marine ecosystem

(Hiérarchie : Fisheries > Aquatic ecosystem management > Aquatic ecosystems > Marine ecosystem)

Marine navigation

(Hiérarchie : Fisheries > Aquatic navigation > Marine navigation)

VEDETTE

* Haut-fond découvrant statut : recommandé

PARTIE DU DISCOURS

nom masculin

ÉTYMOLOGIE

Haut-fond découvrant

DÉFINITION

un élément terrestre naturellement formé au large (tel qu'une vasière, un haut-fond, un rocher ou un récif) à une distance maximale de 12 milles nautiques de la ligne de basse mer du continent ou d'une île, qui est entouré d'eau et visible à marée basse, mais submergé à marée haute.

PLURIEL

Hauts-fonds découvrants ;

SOURCE DE DÉFINITION

Fishterm

Notes

Eléments terrestres naturels au large (par exemple, vasières, hauts-fonds, rochers ou récifs) visibles à marée basse mais submergés à marée haute.

Caractéristiques des hauts-fonds découvrants :

Ils sont situés à une distance ne dépassant pas 12 milles marins de la laisse de basse mer du continent ou d'une île ;
Ils sont entourés d'eau aux basses eaux moyennes inférieures, qu

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SUBJECT FIELD

Marine ecosystem

(Hierarchy: Fisheries > Aquatic ecosystem management > Aquatic ecosystems > Marine ecosystem)

Marine navigation

(Hierarchy: Fisheries > Aquatic navigation > Marine navigation)

TERM

* Low-tide elevation status: recommended

PART OF SPEECH

noun

PLURAL

Low-tide elevations ;

ETYMOLOGY

The word low-tide elevation dates back before the twentieth century. The earliest usages in published works can be seen in books such as:

Benedict, E. C., Knauth, A. W., Knauth, C. R. (1940). The Law of American Admiralty: Its Jurisdiction and Practice; with Forms and Directions. United States: M. Bender. page 562. View in Google books ;
Appeared in numerous articles in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This goes to support the fact that it was already an internationally recognised term;

An analysis of ngram graph, graph 1, above shows that the term low-tide elevation came into usage even before the 1870's. It then became wildly used from the 1940's, turned even more popular after its usage in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

DEFINITION

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.

DEFINITION SOURCE

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

USAGE EXAMPLE

" 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. " (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 13, paragraph 2)

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