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LAW OF THE SEA: LEGAL DIVISIONS & COASTAL STATE RIGHTS. Internal Waters. Maritime Baselines. Normal Baseline Straight Baselines. Straight Baselines. Deeply Indented Coast & Fringing Islands Highly Unstable Coastlines Certain Low-Tide Elevations River Mouths Reefs Harbor Works
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Maritime Baselines • Normal Baseline • Straight Baselines
Straight Baselines • Deeply Indented Coast & Fringing Islands • Highly Unstable Coastlines • Certain Low-Tide Elevations • River Mouths • Reefs • Harbor Works • Roadsteads
ISLANDS AND LOW-TIDE ELEVATIONS 96-CD598
MARITIME BASELINES (CONTD.) • Juridical Bays • Historic Bays Chesapeake Bay
JURIDICAL BAY 96-CD600
JURIDICAL BAYWITH MOUTH EXCEEDING 24NM CLOSURE RULE
NATIONAL WATERS • Internal Waters • Coastal State Permission • Canals Used for International Navigation • Territorial Sea • Permitted Restrictions on Innocent Passage • Rocks and Islands • Archipelagic Waters
INTERNATIONAL WATERS • 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 • Warning Zones • advisory only; duty not to interfere • Maritime Boundary Delimitation • territorial sea: median line • EEZ & continental shelf: equitable
AIRSPACE • National Airspace • complete sovereignty • International Airspace • no sovereignty • Warning Areas • Flight Information Regions • Air Defense Identification Zones • Outer Space