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Ulysses founder will o’brien reveals why tiny islands can control surprisingly huge stretches of ocean under maritime law: "Up to 12 nautical miles off the coast is the area that most of your laws apply, and then up to maybe 200 nautical miles is where you have some sort... of claim over. That does vary." "There is a number of islands in the Pacific where the island itself might be the size of Cow Hollow or the Marina District. But the land mass itself is the size of the Greater Bay Area. Atolls, Palau. They have scattered claims all the way around, and you can connect the dots between them." "It kind of depends on the country and the historic precedent." Ulysses Maritime Technologies, Inc.show more

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Luke Drago26 days ago

@Willob didn’t expect my high school obsession with the UN Law of the Sea to be relevant to an MTS tweet but here we are

ᴏᴡᴇɴ ʟᴀᴜɴᴄʜᴇs 🚀26 days ago

@Willob tiny specks of land in the middle of the ocean securing massive exclusive economic zones just cause of a few scattered atolls is maritime law operating like a total cheat code connected dots over thousands of miles of water give microscopic islands outsized geopolitical leverage.

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