PCMar 22, 2024

#TodayILearned #TIL about the #ExtendedContinentalShelf (#ECS)

The #Biden administration just claimed a huge natural resource area on the extended continental shelf beyond the normal 200 mile #territorial #limit from our coast.

- Five Takeaways from the US Continental Shelf Announcement | Wilson Center

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/five-takeaways-us-continental-shelf-announcement

Five Takeaways from the US Continental Shelf Announcement

Wilson Center
PCMar 22, 2024

Why isn’t #Biden’s team screaming from the rooftops about this?

#ExtendedContinentalShelf (#ECS)

With this territory expansion move, the U.S. has defined its ECS limits extending *beyond* 200 nautical miles from their coasts.

The U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers β€’ Earth.com

https://www.earth.com/news/the-u-s-just-expanded-its-territory-by-a-million-square-kilometers/

The U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers

The U.S. has officially expanded its geographical territory by one million square kilometers. This U.S. territory expansion utilized the ECS.

Earth.com
πŸ’§πŸŒ Greg CocksJan 17, 2024
Continental Shelf Maps Could Add Egypt-Size Area To U.S. Territory – A Two-Decade Mapping Effort Yields Bounty Of Seafloor Data
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https://www.science.org/content/article/continental-shelf-maps-could-add-egypt-size-area-u-s-territory <-- shared technical article
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https://www.state.gov/the-us-ecs/ <-- US Dept. Of State Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) project page
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