Definitions for the Law of the Sea

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 14
I.  Introduction to the Report......Page 18
A. Format of the Report; Rationale for and Uses of the Report......Page 19
B. Projections for the Future......Page 22
C. Notes of Thanks......Page 23
II. 
Table of Abbreviated (Short) Citations and Terms; Conventions for Citations......Page 26
III. 
Commentaries on Formulating Definitions for the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention......Page 36
A. Plan and Progression of the Project......Page 38
B. Sources of Law, the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, and the ABILA LOS Committee Definitions Project......Page 42
C. The Role and Relationship of Understandings, Declarations and Statements, Also Collectively Known as Interpretative or Interpretive Statements, Appended to the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention and the ABILA LOS Committee Definitions Project......Page 54
1. Treaty Interpretation and Definitions of Treaty Terms......Page 62
2. Definitions in the Law of the Sea Convention......Page 68
a. “Mile”......Page 69
b. Definitions Relating to the Continental Shelf......Page 70
c. “Ship” or “Vessel”......Page 72
d. “Other Rules of International Law”......Page 79
e. “Genuine Link”......Page 86
3. Conclusion......Page 95
E. “Words! Words! Words!”: Dilemmas in Definitions......Page 96
A. Preliminary Observations......Page 102
§ 2. Adjacent coasts......Page 103
§ 3. Aid(s) to Navigation; Navigational Aid(s); Facility (Navigational)......Page 106
§ 5. Applicable and Generally Accepted......Page 109
§ 6. Appropriate; appropriation......Page 114
§ 7. Appropriate international organization or appropriate international organizations......Page 116
§ 9. Area and area......Page 120
§ 10. Artificial island, offshore installation, installation (offshore)......Page 121
§ 11. Associated species or dependent species......Page 124
§ 12. Atoll......Page 126
§ 14. Azimuth......Page 128
§ 15. Bank; bank(s)......Page 129
§ 16. Basepoint or point......Page 130
§ 17. Bearing, abbreviated BRG......Page 138
§ 19. Benefit of mankind as a whole, or benefit of humankind 
as a whole......Page 139
§ 22. Cap......Page 141
§ 23. Chart; nautical chart......Page 143
§ 24. Chart datum......Page 145
§ 26. Closing line......Page 146
§ 28. Coast......Page 147
§ 31. Coastal State......Page 148
§ 34. Common heritage of mankind or common heritage of humankind......Page 151
§ 35. Competent international organization or competent 
international organizations......Page 154
§ 36. Compilation......Page 166
§ 37. Continental rise......Page 167
§ 38. Continental slope......Page 169
§ 39. Contributions in kind......Page 171
§ 42. Course made good, abbreviated as CMG......Page 175
§ 44. Danger to navigation......Page 176
§ 45. Danger to overflight......Page 178
§ 47. Deep ocean floor......Page 180
§ 49. Delta......Page 181
§ 51. Developing State(s)......Page 182
§ 52. Distress......Page 186
§ 53. Drying reef......Page 192
§ 54. Due notice, appropriate publicity, and due publicity......Page 193
§ 56. Due regard......Page 196
§ 58. Equidistance line; equidistant line; median line......Page 205
§ 60. Estuary......Page 206
§ 64. Feature object......Page 208
§ 65. Fishing......Page 209
§ 66. Flag state......Page 210
§ 67. Foot of the continental slope......Page 213
§ 68. Force majeure......Page 214
§ 69. Fringing reef......Page 222
§ 72. Genuine link......Page 223
§ 74. Geodetic data......Page 227
§ 75. Geodetic datum......Page 228
§ 76. Geographic coordinates, geographical coordinates, 
or coordinates......Page 230
§ 78. Geometric primitive......Page 232
§ 79. Harbor works; facility (port)......Page 233
§ 80. Heading......Page 234
§ 81. High seas......Page 235
§ 82. Historic bay......Page 242
§ 83. Hydrographic survey......Page 244
§ 84. Indicator......Page 246
§ 87. Isobath......Page 247
§ 89. Land territory; land domain......Page 248
§ 90. Latitude, parallels of latitude or parallels......Page 250
§ 91. Leg......Page 251
§ 94. Line of delimitation......Page 252
§ 96. List of Radio Signals......Page 254
§ 97. Longitude; meridian or meridians......Page 255
§ 98. Low water line or low water mark......Page 256
§ 100. Marine scientific research, abbreviated MSR......Page 258
§ 102. Maximum sustainable yield......Page 262
§ 105. Mile or nautical mile......Page 264
§ 106. Monetary penalties only; monetary penalties......Page 266
§ 107. Mouth (of a bay)......Page 268
§ 108. Mouth (of a river)......Page 269
§ 111. Natural prolongation......Page 270
§ 112. Natural resources......Page 271
§ 115. Navarea......Page 274
§ 118. Navigational warning......Page 275
§ 121. Notice to airmen, abbreviated NOTAM......Page 276
§ 123. NOTMAR......Page 277
§ 126. Ocean space or sea......Page 278
§ 127. Oceanic plateau......Page 280
§ 128. Oceanic ridge......Page 281
§ 130. Opposite coasts......Page 282
§ 131. Optimum utilization......Page 283
§ 132. Other rules of international law......Page 284
§ 133. Outer limit......Page 289
§ 134. Outermost fixed points......Page 292
§ 137. Port......Page 293
§ 140. Reef......Page 296
§ 141. Regional organization or subregional organization......Page 297
§ 143. River......Page 299
§ 146. Roadstead or roads......Page 301
§ 147. Rock......Page 303
§ 149. Route planning......Page 304
§ 150. Routing system, also spelled routeing system......Page 305
§ 152. Rules of the Road, or Rules of the Nautical Road......Page 306
§ 153. Sailing directions, Coast Pilot or Coastal Pilot......Page 307
§ 154. Scale......Page 308
§ 155. Scale bar......Page 309
§ 157. Sea-bed, seabed or bed......Page 310
§ 159. Seaworthy; seaworthiness......Page 311
§ 160. Sedimentary rock......Page 312
§ 161. Serious act of pollution......Page 314
§ 162. Shelf......Page 315
§ 163. Ship or vessel......Page 317
§ 164. Slope......Page 318
§ 169. Speed......Page 319
§ 171. Speed of advance, abbreviated SOA......Page 320
§ 172. Speed over ground, abbreviated SOG......Page 321
§ 173. Spur......Page 322
§ 176. Straight line; straight baseline; straight archipelagic baseline......Page 323
§ 177. Strait; straits......Page 325
§ 179. Submarine cable......Page 327
§ 180. Submarine elevation......Page 329
§ 181. Submarine pipeline......Page 330
§ 182. Submarine ridge......Page 332
§ 184. Subsoil......Page 334
§ 185. Superjacent waters, or water column......Page 336
§ 186. Supplementary information......Page 337
§ 187. Textual HO [hydrographic office] information......Page 339
§ 188. Thalweg......Page 340
§ 189. Tide......Page 341
§ 191. Track keeping......Page 342
§ 192. Traffic separation scheme......Page 343
§ 193. True distance......Page 345
§ 197. Voyage data recorder, sometimes referred to as a “black box”......Page 346
§ 198. Voyage plan......Page 347
§ 199. Warning......Page 348
§ 201. Waypoint......Page 349
V.  Conclusion......Page 352