State archipelago

A State archipelago is a State entirely made up by one or more Archipel S, together of islands close from/to each other, like the Indonesia, the Filipino or the Seychelles.

Legal definition

The Convention of the United Nations on the right of the sea defines an archipelago thus as: a whole of islands, including parts of islands, water contiguous and the other natural elements which have the ones with the others of the connections so close that they form a geographical, economic and political whole intrinsically, or who are historically regarded as such.

Convention recognizes in these States a specific scheme: the territorial Sea is, in their case, a broad zone of 12 marine miles beyond of a line connecting the extreme points of the most distant islands. The water located between the islands is indicated under the name of archipelagic water.

Archipelagic water is not regarded as interior Eaux and the Right of innocent passage is exerted there for all the other States. This right of innocent passage entirely is however not recognized by the Indonesia which would like to impose obligatory roads of crossing of the archipelago, with notices of passage, in particular for the war buildings.

List

The following States, inter alia, are regarded as States archipelagoes:

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

States archipelagoes (extracted the convention of the United Nations on the right of the sea)

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