ABSTRACT
Because of the nature of the evolution of the Law of the Sea, and the manner of organization of UNCLOS III, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea does not lend itself to analysis of all topics of interest to a political geographer in an orderly, systematic fashion. Thus, for example, if one is interested in fishing, one must find references to it in dozens of articles scattered through the main text and three annexes. Similarly, some topics of great interest to political geographers are scarcely mentioned in the Convention or omitted altogether. Some of the topics omitted will be discussed in subsequent chapters, but here we will include some that deserve more attention than they received in the Convention. The selection is somewhat arbitrary, of course, and is not meant to be definitive. A careful reading of the Convention and its appendages will reveal many more topics worth the scrutiny of a political geographer.
