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LAND FORMS AND ECOSYSTEMS > CONTINENTAL SHELF
LAND FORMS AND ECOSYSTEMS > CONTINENTAL SHELF
LAW OF THE SEA > CONTINENTAL SHELF
LAW OF THE SEA > CONTINENTAL SHELF

Preferred term

CONTINENTAL SHELF  

Note

  • BLMNSU

Scope note

  • A comparatively shallow zone that borders the continents and separates them from the deeper oceanic regions. Sometimes considered as the division between the territorial waters of a State and the high seas or adjacent seas

Identifier

  • https://lib-thesaurus.un.org/LIB/DHLUNBISThesaurus.nsf/fee3fb01c865ac5d85256cf400648b1f/1d0cacdddb78398a85256aa0005f8d38
  • T0000612

In other languages

  • الرصيف القاري

    Arabic

  • 大陆架

    Chinese

  • PLATEAU CONTINENTAL

    French

  • PLATE-FORME CONTINENTALE
  • Континентальный шельф

    Russian

  • PLATAFORMA CONTINENTAL

    Spanish

URI

http://metadata.un.org/thesaurus/1001274

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