A mid-2011 post Beautiful maps in current affairs stated
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea [...] by Dr Parson of the Southampton UK National Oceanographic Centre [...] described how nations were given an opportunity to claim Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) beyond the standard 200 nautical mile limit (viz. UNCLOS and UNEP). [...]
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Recent news about sabre-rattling in the South China Sea prompted me to look up the actual EEZ boundaries, which I had downloaded for a project mentioned earlier - this issue also discussed re: the Arctic here and here - the area in dispute jumps out of the map just posted on arcgis.com.0 Its immensity is very apparent by using the Measure tool: roughly three quarter million square kilometres or a quarter million square miles!
Well the sabre-rattling hasn't abated, and I re-used a previous Arctic map
