ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that offshore boundary considerations, the local geographical environment is vital. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was formulated for application at a global scale, but its implementation depends very much upon local geography. This leads to many problems of scale when actual examples are considered. It is realised that such a problem is merely one aspect of the general/specific dichotomy in scientific analysis. The demarcation of offshore boundaries between adjacent states would seem to be a rather simpler task than that between opposite states. However, of great importance must be the angle of projection of the boundary from the coastline. In the case of Malta and Libya, two totally different coastlines were being matched. In the case of Tunisia and Libya, two adjacent states, the orientation of the coastlines was considered important.
