Subject: chapter 5  limits of the area beyond national jurisdiction<br/>
Date: Jan 04, 2001 @ 23:14<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-30702183">unclos 1982 provided first comprehensive demarcation & separation of the<br/>
seabed into 2 major zones<br/>
namely the areas  within  &  beyond  the limits of national jurisdiction<br/>
<br/>
the latter area is recognized in the preamble as the common heritage of<br/>
mankind to be exploited for the benefit of mankind as a whole<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
my glosses<br/>
so it seems the 1959 antarctic treaty that made antarctica into a sort of<br/>
everyones land for the first time<br/>
is augmented here by the creation of a sort of everyones water & seabed<br/>
in a first ever union of unassociated yet legally equivalent land & waters<br/>
<br/>
so technically & topologically<br/>
these areas<br/>
of which there are more than a dozen scattered worldwide<br/>
being omnisovereign rather than nonsovereign<br/>
would appear to constitute de jure a global federal territory<br/>
or a true everyones land<br/>
for the first time<br/>
<br/>
this realization produces many new world class federative tripoints<br/>
in a sort of global culmination or apotheosis of the multipoint hierarchy<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
anyway the chapter continues<br/>
for the international community in general the boundary of the area is of<br/>
major significance<br/>
<br/>
not only should it be accurately located<br/>
but it should also be internationally agreed<br/>
so that the full extent of the area is preserved<br/>
& subsequent creeping jurisdiction prevented<br/>
<br/>
by piers gardiner<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
btw the earlier notes were thanx to gerald blake</div>