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Chapter 137 Exclusive Economic Zone

In the era of the great discovery of Mars, the news of the launch of the fourth aircraft carrier on Hawke Island did not cause a big sensation in the world.

However, military fans and the 5400 million islanders of Hawke Island are still very concerned, because this is the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on Hawke Island, and Hawke Island has also become the third country to have a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

As the Duke, He Xiao was invited to participate in the launching ceremony without any accident. He also participated in the ceremony, as well as the heads of the Hawke Island Administration Office and the military, including Roger Andre, Karl Ein Stein and other celebrities or academic leaders.

At about 11:[-], the naming ceremony for the launching began. The audience sang the national anthem of the Duke of Hawke "The Stars Will Shine Forever in the Eastern Ocean", and the Big Dipper flag was gradually raised.At the ceremony, He Xiao awarded the naming certificate to the chief officer of the receiving force and cut the ribbon for the launch of the aircraft carrier.

Then there was a bottle throwing ceremony, the champagne bottle hit the bow of the ship and shattered, colorful ribbons were sprayed on both sides, the ship whistled, the dock door opened, and the aircraft carrier slowly moved out of the dock.The launching naming ceremony ended with the singing of the Hawke Island military song.

Hawke Island's fourth aircraft carrier is named "Hawk Island Naval Tianquan Class First Ship", which is currently the largest aircraft carrier on Blue Star.

It has a length of 512 meters, a hull width of 63 meters, a flight deck width of 102 meters, a draft of 15 meters, a full load of 16.5 tons, and a crew of 5217 people. The most advanced Ford-class aircraft carrier.

Everyone present, as well as the audience on the shore, were extremely excited and proud.

For a long time, Hawk Island's navy has been considered not strong enough. Before that, there were only three ordinary aircraft carriers with a displacement of less than 8 tons, and they were not completely independently developed.

The construction of a super aircraft carrier with a capacity of more than 10 tons has always been the common wish of Hawke Island's 5400 million islanders.

The Duke’s Mansion and the Administration Office often receive related petitions, and Hawk Island’s official website and social accounts also have many messages. Now, it has become a reality, and this will not be the first one. Follow-up aircraft carriers of the same level will be Will build at least 5 more.

After all, although Hawke Island only has a territory of 75 square kilometers, it is the country with the largest exclusive economic zone in the Blue Star Ocean. Half of the Eastern Ocean is the exclusive economic zone of Hawke Island...

As we all know, according to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, it is decided that the width of the territorial sea shall not exceed 12 nautical miles, but the exclusive economic zone outside its territorial waters may reach 200 nautical miles.

Other countries enjoy three freedoms in the exclusive economic zone: freedom of overflight, freedom of water navigation, and freedom of laying cables and pipelines on the seabed.However, the exercise of these three freedoms is not unlimited, but conditional, and cannot affect the national security of the coastal state.

In other words, as long as it affects its national security, it has the power to prevent...

Of course, the premise is that you have the strength to stop it.

The area of ​​Hawke Island is not particularly large compared to the Southern Continent, and even slightly smaller than the New Guinea Island, which also belongs to the Southern Continent. It is the fourth largest island in the world, but it has 2700 small islands within the Eastern Ocean.

The island where the nuclear explosion was tested before is the largest uninhabited island.

The vast majority of these small islands are uninhabited islands, with an area of ​​no more than 1 square kilometer. They cannot be seen on the world map at all, even on the normal version of the Hawk Island map. After all, the map drawing is only so big. If important islands are drawn, the size of the main island will be greatly reduced, and the amount of information that the main island can standardize will be greatly reduced.

Only the special version of Hawk Island’s entire sea area map can display these small islands. These small islands are the result of the colonization of the Pu Kingdom and the Tulip Kingdom. ".

These islands are spread across almost the entire Eastern Ocean, with a total area of ​​less than 2000 square kilometers. However, due to the provisions of the law of the sea, any island can have exclusive economic rights of 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) around it...

In other words, even an ocean-going island of 0.01 square kilometers can have an exclusive economic zone of 430000 square kilometers, which is larger than the combined area of ​​the four Fusang islands...

Theoretically, the 2700 islands of Hawke Island can have an exclusive economic zone of up to 116100 billion square kilometers. Of course, in fact, many islands are relatively close to each other, and there are many overlapping areas. The real exclusive economic zone area of ​​Hawke Island , "only" 3525 million square kilometers, which is only one-fifth of the Eastern Ocean...

In comparison, the exclusive economic zone of the United States, which has many overseas territories, is 1217 million square kilometers, that of Frankland is 1169 million square kilometers, that of the Confederacy is 820 million square kilometers, and that of the Eastern States is only 300 million square kilometers. kilometer……

In a sense, the clause of the exclusive economic zone is the most beneficial to the original colonial countries, after all, they have occupied many isolated overseas territories.

Hawke Island and the Southern Federation originally belonged to the Tulip Federation, the empire on which the sun never sets, and they can be regarded as inheriting the legacy of the old colonial empire. It is not surprising that the exclusive economic zone is a bit larger.

However, due to historical reasons, Hawke Island has inherited a bit too much. The suzerain country has always regretted it. Why did so many uninhabited islands in the ocean be handed over to Hawke Island for "mandate rule"—and some of them were handed over to the Southern Federation" mandate".

In fact, we can’t blame them. After all, at the end of World War II, most countries did not realize the value of the exclusive economic zone of the sea. At that time, there was no such thing as a 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone, only 3 nautical miles (5.55 kilometers) of territorial waters. statement.

The most important thing is that they never thought at the time that their prestige would drop so quickly, and Hawke Island rose so quickly.

At the end of World War II, Hawke Island under the rule of the old Duke Hawke was basically an agricultural country!
Who would have thought that after 70 years of laying the foundations of this strong man in history, and after several years of explosion, there is a tendency to surpass the suzerain country...

In a sense, Hawk Island is now the country with the largest territorial waters in Blue Star, so the navy is naturally very important to Hawk Island. In the past, they were often attacked by Midi and even the Southern Federation because of their weak navy. the bullying...

Their warships arbitrarily entered and exited the exclusive economic zone of Hawke Island and even the territorial waters within 12 nautical miles. At that time, Hawke Island had no choice but to act as if they did not know. This kind of thing will not be allowed to happen in the future!
Although Hawk Island is also part of NATO in a sense, this is not the Western Ocean, but the Eastern Ocean!

And you are indeed a threat to the national security of Hawke Island!

He Xiao looked at the map of the entire sea area of ​​Hawke Island, almost the entire Eastern Ocean, there are islands belonging to Hawke Island everywhere, and there is even a super long island chain, from Alaska in the north to near the Antarctic Circle in the south, Hawke Island The exclusive sea area of ​​​​is connected together...

If Hawke Island has enough naval strength and does not allow any country to pass through, then they basically only detour from the Beiling Strait or the coast of Antarctica...

(End of this chapter)