Practice question
A baseline designer selects a low-tide elevation fifteen nautical miles from the nearest island. It has no lighthouse or similar installation permanently above sea level. Assume the applicable territorial-sea breadth is twelve nautical miles. Does Article 47(4) permit that basepoint on these facts?
- Yes, because every low-tide elevation qualifies
- Yes, solely because the designer prefers it
- Yes, because fifteen is less than two hundred
- No, neither stated exception to the low-tide-elevation restriction is satisfied
- No low-tide elevation can ever be used
Legal references
- UNCLOS, Part IV, Articles 46–50: https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part4.htm; Article 47(4).
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