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The shelf surrounding an island is known as an "insular shelf." The continental margin , between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain , comprises a steep continental slope, surrounded by the flatter continental rise , in which sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of ...
The terms Island Southeast Asia and Insular Southeast Asia are sometimes given the same meaning as Maritime Southeast Asia. [ a ] Other definitions restrict Island Southeast Asia to just the islands between mainland Southeast Asia and the continental shelf of Australia and New Guinea.
Continental shelf: to depth of exploitation Exclusive economic zone : 2,263,816 km 2 (874,064 sq mi) with 200 nautical miles (370 km) Territorial sea: irregular polygon extending up to 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) from the coastline as defined by 1898 treaty; since the late 1970s has also claimed the polygonal-shaped area in the South ...
Pages in category "Insular Government of the Philippine Islands" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Philippines said it was using an entitlement under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea to establish the outer limits of its continental shelf, comprising the seabed and subsoil of the ...
Insular South Asia is an ill-defined region, consisting at a minimum of all islands in the Southern region of Asia, principally Sri Lanka, the Maldives and the Laccadives. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Other sources also apply the term to the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia encompassing Brunei , Indonesia , East Malaysia , the Philippines , Singapore ...
The Philippines' Land Management Bureau (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Pamamahala sa mga Lupa, abbreviated as LMB), is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources responsible for administering, surveying, managing, and disposing Alienable and Disposable (A&D) lands and other government lands not placed under the jurisdiction of other government ...
The national territory comprises the Philippine archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced therein, and all other territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial, and aerial domains, including its territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and other ...