scholarly journals Studies of suspended matter along the North and Middle Atlantic outer continental shelf

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Bothner ◽  
C.M. Parmenter ◽  
R. R. Rendigs ◽  
B. Butman ◽  
L.J. Poppe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Suspended Matter ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
The North

The North Pole Seabed Nature Reserve as a Provisional Arrangement

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-133
Author(s):  
Olya Gayazova
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
North Pole ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Median Line ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
Positive Direct

Abstract That the geographic North Pole is the Arctic Schelling point, is implicit in the Russian submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. I assess this premise vis-à-vis three other approaches to the outer continental shelf delimitation in the Arctic Ocean—the median-line method; a joint submission; and an international zone around the North Pole—and show that both the premise and the alternatives have limitations. Then I explain how an agreement between the Arctic Ocean states (the A5) to establish a seabed nature reserve north of 88°20´N and within 100 nm from the 2,500-meter isobath overcomes those limitations and what positive direct and indirect effects may come from it.

Russian Flag at the North Pole

2018 ◽  
pp. 410-418
Author(s):  
Rosemary Rayfuse
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
North Pole ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
The North ◽  
The One ◽  
Legal Sense ◽  
Physical Manifestation

Russia’s planting of a flag on the seabed at the North Pole in 2007 set off a flurry of concern about its maritime and territorial ambitions and the potential for international conflict in the Arctic. However, the law of the sea now renders moot traditional rules of the doctrine of discovery and occupation as manifestations of sovereignty. Thus, the Russian flag at the North Pole is meaningless in the legal sense. Nevertheless, it is not irrelevant. On the one hand, it has catalyzed the development of a ‘law habit’ among the Arctic states now reflected in cooperation on scientific and technical work to support their overlapping outer continental-shelf claims to the Arctic seabed and on other Arctic Ocean matters. On the other hand, it has clearly signalled a claim to an advantageous negotiating position. The flag is thus a physical manifestation of both the power and pretence of international law.

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