Three-mile limit
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The three-mile limit refers to a traditional and now largely obsolete conception of the international law of the seas which defined a country's territorial waters, for the purposes of trade regulation and exclusivity, as extending as far as the reach of cannons fired from land.[1]
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Since the mid-20th century, numerous nations have claimed territorial waters well beyond the traditional three-mile limit. Commonly these maritime territories extend 12 nautical miles (22 km) from a
References
- ^ "Three Nautical Mile Limit". www.pacioos.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- S2CID 146893463.
- ^ "Download 3, 12, and 24-Nautical Mile Limits". Archived from the original on 2010-04-11.
- ^ "Field Listing - Maritime claims".