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Afanasy Nikitin Seamount
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- India applied to the International Seabed Authority (ISBA), Jamaica, for rights to explore two vast tracts in the Indian Ocean seabed that aren’t part of its jurisdiction.
- The application to explore one of these regions, a cobalt-rich crust long known as the Afanasy Nikitin Seamount (AN Seamount), is a gambit by India.
- Rights to the region have already been claimed by Sri Lanka under a separate set of laws.
- But India’s application is part-motivated by reports of vessels by China undertaking reconnaissance in the same region.
- The AN Seamount is a structural feature (400 km-long and 150 km-wide) in the Central Indian Basin.
- It is located about 3,000 km away from India’s coast.
- From an oceanic depth of about 4,800 km, it rises to about 1,200 metre rich in deposits of cobalt, nickel, manganese and copper.
- Countries have exclusive rights up to 200 nautical miles, and its underlying sea-bed from their borders.
- Some ocean-bound states may have a natural stretch of land, connecting their border and the edge of the deep ocean that extends beyond this 200, as part of their so-called continental shelf.
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