ABSTRACT
The requirement for maritime boundaries between states started very modestly. The way maritime boundaries should be delimited was not really considered in depth until the International Law Commission included this topic in its considerations on the codification of the regime of the high seas and the territorial sea between 1949 and 1956, prior to the Geneva Conference. Judge David Anderson concluding that 'the perpendicular to the general direction of the coast should be retained as a permissible method of delimiting the territorial sea and other maritime areas between adjacent coastal States, for use in appropriate places such as Grisbadarna'. The first legal guidance concerning maritime delimitation was to be found in Article 12 of the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone. The protocol supplementary to the agreement of 1965, extending the boundary to the tripoint with the Faeroe Islands, was signed in December 1978.
