Our seabed? Argentina, the Falklands and the wider South Atlantic

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ID9225337
AuthorsKlaus Dodds (0000-0001-5074-0662, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume52
Issue5
Pages535-540
Publication date2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolar Record (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s003224741600036x
OpenAlexW2373769751
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

This note addresses the recent announcement regarding Argentina's submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. While the commission considered much of Argentina's submitted materials regarding the outer continental shelf (and sovereign rights that accrue to the seabed), it deliberately excluded areas of controversy including the Falkland Islands and Antarctica. What should be of interest to Polar Record readers is how consistently international media, including British journalists, misunderstand international maritime law and ‘stoke’ the fires of Argentine and British nationalisms. The Argentine government, however, was not an innocent party and its own press releases were ambiguous on the matter concerned, even if the commission had recognised the merit of much of their scientific-technical submission

Commission · Continental shelf · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Seabed · Sovereignty · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Geology · International Maritime Law Issues · Law · Oceanography · Polar Research and Ecology

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