From the landward side, there are no guns at Aqaba.

The Argonauts will take ship, The landward way is shorter,

The Argonauts will take ship. The landward way is shorter.

The Argonauts will take ship. The landward way is shorter.

With good reason. It cannot be approached from the landward side.

After examining at length the characteristics of each base point chosen by the parties for the establishment of the provisional equidistance line, the Court decided to use the Sacalin Peninsula and the landward end of the Sulina dyke on the Romanian coast, and Tsyganka Island, Cape Tarkhankut and Cape Khersones on the Ukrainian coast.

At 1745 hours on 12 April 2001, an Israeli gunboat, No. 814, sailed towards Naqoura and dropped anchor in Lebanese territorial waters at about 50 metres off the coast. An inflatable dinghy with three persons aboard was lowered into the water. It then headed landwards.

It requires scientific inputs from many disciplines; in particular, in the coastal areas, it requires an understanding of the interactions of land and water, of the factors affecting water quality and of the basis for settling differences on the use of the coastal areas, in both their seaward and landward parts.

It should be noted that the legal term “continental shelf” used throughout the Convention does not coincide with the geographic or geological continental shelf, which is generally a shallow-water offshore plain area, and the furthest landward of three elements of the continental margin.

They will also be permitted to receive information regarding ships intending to enter their ports provided that the ships in question are not located within the “waters landward of the baselines, established in accordance with international law, of another contracting Government” (referred to as “internal waters” in UNCLOS).