Islands and reefs“island”When the continental shelf was formed, the island with human activities above the water surface was the first to land and effectively control the country“reef”Sea level andcontinental shelfDuring the change, the moon gravity caused the earth tide to submerge the island. The first country working here has sovereignty.The sovereignty dispute shall be subject to the first landing or labor operation.Islands and reefs are their collective names.
Islands and reefs, literallyislandGenerally speaking, it is a land surrounded by water on all sides, with a certain area, and there may be various landforms on it;reefGenerally speaking, it is the stone in the river and sea, which can be seen on the seaBright reefWhat can't be seen on the sea is calledreef。Islands and reefs are their collective names.
Since the definition of islands and reefs involves the interests of all countries, all countries have their own views on this, so the boundaries between them are also ambiguous (this is man-made, which is the so-called muddy water is good for fishing).There are no fixed rules to follow on how to distinguish between reefs and islands.
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According to《United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea》Article 121 stipulates that rocks that cannot sustain human habitation or their own economic life shall notexclusive economic zoneorcontinental shelf。The Convention only states that islands and reefs cannot own the continental shelf of territorial sea, and does not stipulate how to belong to the sovereignty of islands and reefs (the universally recognized legal principle is that land rules the sea, and the Convention on the Law of the Sea will not regulate land sovereignty).[1]
