The US has extended its claims on the ocean floor, securing rights to potentially resource-rich seabeds. The Extended Continental Shelf covers about 1 million square kilometers predominantly in the Arctic and Bering Sea. The announcement maps the outer reaches of the US continental shelf, the country’s land territory under the sea.
The US extended its claims on the ocean floor by an area twice the size of California, securing rights to potentially resource-rich seabeds at a time when Washington is ramping up efforts to safeguard supplies of minerals key to future technologies. The so-called Extended Continental Shelf covers about 1 million square kilometers (386,100 square miles), predominantly in the Arctic and Bering Sea , an area of increasing strategic importance where Canada and Russia also have claims.
The US has also declared the shelf’s boundaries in the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico. The long-awaited announcement earlier this week maps the outer reaches of the US continental shelf, the country’s land territory under the sea. Under international law, countries have economic rights to natural resources on, and under, the seabed floor based on the boundaries of their continental shelve
US Ocean Floor Claims Resource-Rich Seabeds Extended Continental Shelf Arctic Bering Sea International Law
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