Fiche terminologique pour :haut-fond découvrant
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| Numéro de la fiche : | 226/fr/414 |
| Auteur : | ELAD D. F. |
| Date de création : | |
| Dernière mise à jour : | 2025-02-17 21:57:24 |
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| TERM | * Low-tide elevation status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | ||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Low-tide elevation | ||||||
| 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. | ||||||
| PLURAL | Low-tide elevations ; | ||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE | Fishterm | ||||||
| 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) | ||||||
| Notes |
1. Characteristics of Low-tide Elevations:Key characteristics include: 1. Physical and Geomorphic Characteristics
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