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Continental Shelf is the natural prolongation of the land territory of the coastal State into the sea…

Under Article 76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the continental margin, the natural prolongation of the coastal State's land territory, consists of the seabed…

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Continental Shelf is the natural prolongation of the land territory of the coastal State into the sea waters and includes

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Under Article 76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the continental margin, the natural prolongation of the coastal State's land territory, consists of the seabed and subsoil of the shelf, the slope and the rise, i.e. "Shelf + Slope + Rise".

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