The Law of the Sea of the Arctic

Download or read book The Law of the Sea of the Arctic written by Donat Pharand and published by Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of 7 major questions: the applicability of the right of innocent passage to the Northwest and Northeast Passages; the status of the waters of the Canadian arctic archipelago; the possibility of claiming a historic title to some of the arctic waters; the applicability of the principle of "the freedom of the seas" to the Arctic Ocean; the status of ice shelves and ice islands; the international validity of the Canadian arctic pollution prevention legislation; and the state boundaries of the arctic continental shelf and sea-bed.