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Sabina Shoal is a disputed low-tide elevation [1] [2] in the Spratly Islands which is claimed by multiple states: China, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. As a low-tide elevation that is not within the territorial sea of a littoral state, Sabina Shoal itself does not generate any territorial sea of its own per Article 13 of the United ...
A similar blockade is playing out at Sabina Shoal, which is about 40 miles closer to the Philippine coast than the Second Thomas Shoal. Both lie within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the ...
Sabina Shoal, which lies about 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of the Philippines' western island province of Palawan, has become a new flashpoint in the territorial disputes between China and the ...
The Sabina Shoal, known locally as Escoda, is the rendezvous point for vessels resupplying Filipino troops stationed on a grounded warship at the Second Thomas Shoal, where Manila and China have ...
South Reef, South Pass, Sabine Patches, Farquharson Patches, East Pass, Day Shoal, Iroquois Ridge; Trident Shoal, Lys Shoal; 1.23 Thitu Reefs and surrounding Thitu Island, Subi Reef; 1.24 Loaita Bank. Loaita Island, Lankiam Cay; 1.25 & 1.26 Tizard Bank. Namyit Island, Gaven Reefs, Sand Cay, Itu Aba Island, Petley Reef, Eldad Reef; 1.26 West of ...
Landsat 7-derived sketch map of North and South Luconia Shoals Extract from US Dept of State map also showing Louisa Reef and James Shoal. The Luconia Shoals, divided into the North and South Luconia Shoals, and sometimes known as the Luconia Reefs, are one of the largest reef and shoal complexes in the South China Sea. [1]
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Subsequent to the Chinese occupation of Mischief Reef in the mid-1990s, a Philippine World War II-vintage naval landing craft, (LST 57 - Sierra Madre), was deliberately run aground on the Second Thomas Shoal in 1999 to maintain a Philippine naval outpost in the area; more than 15 years later it continues to be manned by about a dozen Philippine Marines.