Englisch-Dänisch Übersetzung für continental shelf

kontinentalsokkelRusland kræver en udvidelse af landets havområde svarende til hele dets kontinentalsokkel eller 38 % af hele det arktiske areal. Russia is claiming the expansion of its maritime zone to include its entire continental shelf. That represents 38% of the entire surface of the Arctic. På Azorerne er problemet, at de ikke har en kontinentalsokkel, og øerne dér skal have en særret, så de kan overleve ved hjælp af fiskeri. In the Azores, the problem is that they do not have a continental shelf, and those islands must be granted a privilege so that they can survive by means of fishing. For adskillige år siden reagerede en af mine kolleger mere eller mindre på denne måde på en avisartikel om de nye gasforekomster i dette sydasiatiske lands kontinentalsokkel. Several years ago, this was more or less the reaction of one of my colleagues to the press report on the news of new natural gas deposits in the continental shelf of that South Asian country.

The outer area of a land mass covered by a shallow sea that extends into open ocean

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