The North Pole Seabed Nature Reserve as a Provisional Arrangement
Abstract That the geographic North Pole is the Arctic Schelling point, is implicit in the Russian submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. I assess this premise vis-à-vis three other approaches to the outer continental shelf delimitation in the Arctic Ocean—the median-lin...
| Published in: | The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law |
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Brill
2012
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157180812x606960 https://brill.com/view/journals/estu/27/1/article-p97_4.xml https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/estu/27/1/article-p97_4.xml |
| Summary: | Abstract That the geographic North Pole is the Arctic Schelling point, is implicit in the Russian submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. I assess this premise vis-à-vis three other approaches to the outer continental shelf delimitation in the Arctic Ocean—the median-line method; a joint submission; and an international zone around the North Pole—and show that both the premise and the alternatives have limitations. Then I explain how an agreement between the Arctic Ocean states (the A5) to establish a seabed nature reserve north of 88°20´N and within 100 nm from the 2,500-meter isobath overcomes those limitations and what positive direct and indirect effects may come from it. |
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