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New Zealand Territorial Sea (12 Nautical Mile)

Date modified: 18 May 2022 Version 2

The Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1977, Act No. 28 of 26 September 1977 as amended by Act No. 146 of 1980 defines the territorial sea of New Zealand as those areas of the sea having, as their inner limits, the baseline which is measured from the low-water mark along the coast of New Zealand, including the coast of all islands and, as their outer limits, a line measured seaward from that baseline, every point of which is distant 12 nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline.

https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/NZL_1980_Act.pdf

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