#TodayILearned #TIL about the #ExtendedContinentalShelf (#ECS)

The #Biden administration just claimed a huge natural resource area on the extended continental shelf beyond the normal 200 mile #territorial #limit from our coast.

- Five Takeaways from the US Continental Shelf Announcement | Wilson Center

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/five-takeaways-us-continental-shelf-announcement

Why isn’t #Biden’s team screaming from the rooftops about this?

#ExtendedContinentalShelf (#ECS)

With this territory expansion move, the U.S. has defined its ECS limits extending *beyond* 200 nautical miles from their coasts.

The U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers • Earth.com

https://www.earth.com/news/the-u-s-just-expanded-its-territory-by-a-million-square-kilometers/

Continental Shelf Maps Could Add Egypt-Size Area To U.S. Territory – A Two-Decade Mapping Effort Yields Bounty Of Seafloor Data
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https://www.science.org/content/article/continental-shelf-maps-could-add-egypt-size-area-u-s-territory <-- shared technical article
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https://www.state.gov/the-us-ecs/ <-- US Dept. Of State Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) project page
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