Suchergebnisse

The Kingdom of Denmark (Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland) ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on 16 November, 2004 and this allows for a period of ten years to submit extended continental shelf claims beyond 200 nautical miles (NM) to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. To acquire the necessary data for delineating the extended continental shelf, the Continental Shelf Project of the Kingdom of Denmark was launched by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in cooperation with the Faroese and Greenland governments. Several institutions participate in the project. The technical work for the Greenland part is coordinated by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the coordination of the Faroese part is shared between the Faroese Earth and Energy Directorate (Jarðfeingi) and GEUS. Further information can be found on the project website www.a76.dk.

Following the expected ratification in 2004 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS from 1982), Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands have a period of maximum 10 years to make claims beyond 200 nautical miles (NM) in five potential areas off Greenland and the Faroe Islands (Fig. 1). In order to provide the necessary database, the Danish Continental Shelf Project has been launched by the Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation in cooperation with the Faroese and Greenland Home Rule governments. Several institutions are participating in this project, with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) as the coordinator of the technical work for the Greenland part of the project, and sharing the responsibility for coordination of the Faroese part with the Faroese Geological Survey (JFS).