Marine scientists from five research agencies have pooled their skills and resources to compile a directory of life on Australia’s continental shelf. They examined the shelf seascape during a ...

Marine scientists from five research agencies have pooled their skills and resources to compile a directory of life on Australia's continental shelf ... Bax said the new maps and knowledge ...

On May 24 2012 Australia made the Seas and Submerged Lands (Limits of Continental Shelf) Proclamation 2012 which defines the outer limits of Australia’s continental shelf. The proclamation ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia has extended its continental shelf under an agreement with the United Nations. "I am pleased to announce that Australia ...

MELBOURNE, Apr. 22-- The United Nations has allowed Australia to greatly extend its continental shelf after 15 years of lobbying. The UN found that Australia's territory should be extended by 2.5 ...

"Tidal waves are the same; they come in towards the coast, and the wider and shallower the continental shelf is, the more they'll pick up in height," Dr Short said. North-west Australia has an ...