Landmark case · Public International Law · Semester 4

Anglo-Norwegian Fisheries (United Kingdom v. Norway)

ICJ Reports 1951, p. 116 · International Court of Justice

Straight baselines may be used where the coast is deeply indented or fringed with islands; the Norwegian decree was not contrary to international law.

From topic

UNCLOS: territorial sea, EEZ, continental shelf and high seas — Unit IV, Public International Law.

Related sections:

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, 2–3 — Sovereignty over the territorial sea; breadth of 12 nautical miles
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, 55–57 — Exclusive economic zone
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, 76 — Definition of the continental shelf
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, 87 — Freedom of the high seas