The now-submerged continental shelf was a vast, habitable landscape for much of the past 65,000 years, covering some 390,000 ...

This is one creative way of conducting research: eight sea lions from Australia have been equipped with cameras in order to ...

Australia submitted full co-ordinates of its continental shelf margin, but asked that the CLCS simply store the data for the time being and not consider it (because of the Antarctic Treaty).

In November 2004, Australia became the first country to claim a continental shelf in Antarctica. Governments divided into two groups on the question of how to ensure compatibility between UNCLOS ...