Publication Name

Extended continental shelf of seven West African coastal states. This map is taken from the Executive Summary of the joint submission by the

seven West African countries (Cabo Verde, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone) to the CLCS. The

map shows the area outside the coast of the seven states, where the purple line marks the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and the red line

indicates the outer limits of the extended continental shelf (ECS).

the Commonwealth Secretariat, Geoscience Australia,

Geocap AS

and the University of Sydney, GRID-Arendal

co-hosted the latest Pacific Maritime Boundaries working

session. During this July workshop:

• States met to negotiate bilateral maritime boundaries.

• Technical teams fromPapua NewGuinea, the Solomon

Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia worked

together to finalise the Ontong Java continental shelf

joint submission amendments.

• Meetings were held with Palau to discuss maritime

boundariesnegotiationswithIndonesiaandPhilippines.

• Marine spatial planning training was provided using

quantum GIS (QGIS) software.

• Advanced Geocap training was provided on the

seafloor module and its integration with QGIS.

• Technical infrastructure was provided to four countries

(Kiribati, Vanuatu, Cook Islands and Fiji) and SPC/

SOPAC for offline access to the PacGeo marine spatial

planning portal (see also section 5D+ below).

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