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The Width of Waters is a novel by the American writer Alfred Kern. The story is set in 1953 in Buchanan, Pennsylvania (a fictionalized Meadville, north of Pittsburgh).
territorial waters, in international law, that area of the sea immediately adjacent to the shores of a state and subject to the territorial jurisdiction of that state.
Article 1. The sovereignty of a State extends, beyond its land territory and its internal waters, to a belt of sea adjacent to its coast, described as the territorial sea. This sovereignty is...
The 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 coastal state has sovereign rights over the territorial sea.
Article 8 Internal Waters 1. Except as provided in Part IV, waters on the landward side of the baseline of the territorial sea form part of the internal waters of the State. 2. Where the establishment of a straight baseline in accordance with the method set forth in
1. The sovereignty of a coastal State extends, beyond its land territory and internal waters and, in the case of an archipelagic State, its archipelagic waters, to an adjacent belt of sea,...
4 days ago · The width of the territorial sea is a matter of dispute in international law. Traditionally it has been fixed at 3 nautical miles (see cannon-shot rule), but many states have claimed 12 miles or more, and this will probably become the normal width.
