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The 1969 North Sea Continental Shelf cases

The facts of these founding landmark cases are well known: the coastal
line along Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany and the
Netherlands is concave with an almost rectangular angle of the German
coast situated between the other countries. It was this particularity that
caused the difficulties in the delimitation of the common and largely
homogeneous continental shelf of the North Sea.

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