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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Artificial Islands, Installations, and Structures

Alex G Oude Elferink

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
July 2024

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 09 December 2024

Subject(s):
Control — Registry — Jurisdiction — Continental shelf — Exclusive economic zone — High seas — Islands and artificial islands — Territorial sea — UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea)

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 A large number of terms are used to refer to human-made objects in the marine environment. The terms artificial islands, installations, and structures are among others used in Arts 60 and 80 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982) (‘UNCLOS’; see also Law of the Sea), which set out the rights and obligations of coastal States in respect of those objects in the exclusive economic zone (‘EEZ’) and the continental shelf. Apart from those terms the UNCLOS also employs such terms as device, machinery, equipment, and platform (see, eg, Arts 1, 19, 21,...
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