Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) the continental shelf is that part of the seabed over which a coastal State exercises sovereign rights with regard to the exploration and exploitation of natural resources including oil and gas deposits as well as other minerals and biological resources of the seabed.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>An exclusive economic zone extends from the outer limit of the territorial sea to a maximum of 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) from the territorial sea baseline, thus it includes the contiguous zone. A coastal nation has control of all economic resources within its exclusive economic zone, including fishing, mining, oil exploration, and any pollution of those resources.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>Territorial waters or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The territorial sea is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state, although foreign ships (civilian) are allowed innocent passage through it, or transit passage for straits; this sovereignty also extends to the airspace over and seabed below. Adjustment of these boundaries is called, in international law, maritime delimitation.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Downloads:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/MSP_Assessment_Line_shape.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Shapefile</SPAN></A></P><P><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/MSP_Assessment_Area_csv.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>CSV</SPAN></A></P><P><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/MSP_Assessment_Area_kml.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>KML</SPAN></A></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>Territorial waters or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The territorial sea is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state, although foreign ships (civilian) are allowed innocent passage through it, or transit passage for straits; this sovereignty also extends to the airspace over and seabed below. Adjustment of these boundaries is called, in international law, maritime delimitation</SPAN></P></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The continental shelf is an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea. Much of the shelves were exposed during glacial periods and interglacial periods. 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 followed by the flatter continental rise. Sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of the slope, called the continental rise. Extending as far as 500 km (310 mi) from the slope, it consists of thick sediments deposited by turbidity currents from the shelf and slope. The continental rise's gradient is intermediate between the slope and the shelf, on the order of 0.5–1°. Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the name continental shelf was given a legal definition as the stretch of the seabed adjacent to the shores of a particular country to which it belongs. Area represents what is currently designated as the Irish Continental Shelf</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Downloads:</SPAN></P><P><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/Designated_Maritime_Boundary_Continental_Shelf.shapezip.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Shapefile</SPAN></A></P><P><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/Designated_Maritime_Boundary_Continental_Shelf.csv.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>CSV</SPAN></A></P><P><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/Designated_Maritime_Boundary_Continental_Shelf.kml.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>KML</SPAN></A></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>An exclusive economic zone extends from the outer limit of the territorial sea to a maximum of 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) from the territorial sea baseline, thus it includes the contiguous zone. A coastal nation has control of all economic resources within its exclusive economic zone, including fishing, mining, oil exploration, and any pollution of those resources. However, it cannot prohibit passage or loitering above, on, or under the surface of the sea that is in compliance with the laws and regulations adopted by the coastal State in accordance with the provisions of the UN Convention, within that portion of its exclusive economic zone beyond its territorial sea. Before the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982, coastal nations arbitrarily extended their territorial waters in an effort to control activities which are now regulated by the exclusive economic zone, such as offshore oil exploration or fishing rights (see Cod Wars). Indeed, the exclusive economic zone is still popularly, though erroneously, called a coastal nation's territorial waters.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Downloads:</SPAN></P><P><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/Exclusive_Economic_Zone_shape.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Shapefile</SPAN></A></P><P><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/EnergyResourcesExploration/Exploration_Wells_Irish_Offshore.csv.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>CSV</SPAN></A></P><P><A href="https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/EnergyResourcesExploration/Exploration_Wells_Irish_Offshore.kml.zip" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>KML</SPAN></A></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>