| Abstrakt: |
Delimitation of maritime boundaries represents a recent state activity. The main impetus stems from the 1958 Geneva Conventions on the Territorial Sea… and on the Continental Shelf. State practice since 1958 has shown a marked preference for the equidistance principle for maritime boundary delimitation. At first many of these limits were geometrically constructed on existing nautical charts or on specifically designed small- to medium-scale maps. With increasing ability to exploit marine resources and the associated need to delimit boundaries farther from the baseline, inequities have developed as a consequence of map projections utilized, differences in horizontal and vertical datums, and so on. This paper discusses the principles behind, and the development of, conventional techniques of equidistant boundary delimitation; illustrates the errors that may result; and points out means, through modern computer technology, to compute equitable, equidistant maritime boundaries at great distances from the baselines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
