![]() ![]() ![]() The Convention on the High Seas, signed in 1958, which has 63 signatories, defined "high seas" to mean "all parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State" and where "no State may validly purport to States have the right to fishing, navigation, overflight, laying cables and pipelines, as well as scientific research. International waters (high seas) do not belong to any state's jurisdiction, known under the doctrine of 'mare liberum'. In other words, "international waters" is sometimes used as an informal synonym for the more formal term high seas or, in Latin, mare liberum (meaning free sea). ![]() It is an informal term, which sometimes refers to waters beyond the "territorial sea" of any country. "International waters" is not a defined term in international law. The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems ( aquifers), and wetlands. ![]()
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