Coast - meaning and illustration

1. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 5, paragraph 1:

" Except where otherwise provided in this Convention, the normal baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the low-water line along the coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal State. "

2. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 7, paragraph 1:

" 1. In localities where the coastline is deeply indented and cut into, or if there is a fringe of islands along the coast in its immediate vicinity, the method of straight baselines joining appropriate points may be employed in drawing the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. "

3. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 7, paragraph 3:

" 3. The drawing of straight baselines must not depart to any appreciable extent from the general direction of the coast, and the sea areas lying within the lines must be sufficiently closely linked to the land domain to be subject to the regime of internal waters. "

4. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 1:

" 1. This article relates only to bays the coasts of which belong to a single State. "

5. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 2:

" 2. For the purposes of this Convention, a bay is a well-marked indentation whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast. An indentation shall not, however, be regarded as a bay unless its area is as large as, or larger than, that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation. "