Norwegian Baselines, Maritime Boundaries and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

• Published in: Arctic Review on Law and Politics
• Main Authors: Geirr Harsson, Bjørn, Preiss, George
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law 2012
• Subjects: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; UNCLOS; base- line; territorial sea; contiguous zone; Exclusive Economic Zone = EEZ; maritime boundaries; geodetic datum; Norway; Jan Mayen; Svalbard; Bouvet Island; Arctic; Barents Sea; Bouvet; Arctic review on law and politics; Law of the Sea
• Online Access: https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/28; https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v3.28

With the signing of the recent agreement with Russia concerning the maritime boundary in the Barents Sea, it can finally be said that all the maritime delimitation lines with which Norway is concerned have been equitably resolved in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). T...