1 LAW OF THE SEA: LEGAL DIVISIONS & COASTAL STATE RIGHTS

2 Internal Waters

3 Maritime Baselines Normal Baseline Straight Baselines

4 Deeply Indented Coast & Fringing Islands Highly Unstable Coastlines Certain Low-Tide Elevations River Mouths Reefs Harbor Works Roadsteads Straight Baselines

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6 ISLANDSANDLOW-TIDEELEVATIONS 96-CD598

7 Juridical Bays Historic Bays MARITIME BASELINES (CONTD.) Chesapeake Bay

8 JURIDICAL BAY 96-CD600

9 JURIDICAL BAY WITH MOUTH EXCEEDING 24NM CLOSURE RULE

10 Bay with Islands

11 Internal Waters –Coastal State Permission –Canals Used for International Navigation Territorial Sea –Permitted Restrictions on Innocent Passage –Rocks and Islands Archipelagic Waters NATIONAL WATERS

12 ROCK OR ISLAND?

13 ARCHIPELAGIC STATE

14 Contiguous Zone –customs, fiscal, immigration, sanitary laws Exclusive Economic Zone –sovereign rights to all natural resources Continental Shelf –sovereign rights to sea-bed & subsoil High Seas –no coastal state sovereignty or sovereign rights INTERNATIONAL WATERS

15 Warning Zones –advisory only; duty not to interfere Maritime Boundary Delimitation –territorial sea: median line –EEZ & continental shelf: equitable INTERNATIONAL WATERS

16 AIRSPACE National Airspace –complete sovereignty International Airspace –no sovereignty –Warning Areas –Flight Information Regions –Air Defense Identification Zones Outer Space

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