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