So are the Falklands (and their mineral rights) safe?

[Mojocvh]

Rockall under UN query..FI next to go??

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/National-News/UN-t...

[EDLT]

I don't see how arguing over an uninhabited smudge (according to google maps) is in any way similar to who owns the Falklands.

[Mojocvh]

Agreed but the precedent set, UN arbitration, could be seen as a way of the spineless coalition ( ) to save more precious lucre at the Nations Expense.

Edited by Mojocvh on Sunday 2nd January 14:42

[Pesty]

Rockall ? Isnt that the place teh ex sas bloke inhabited even though he broke his legs climbing up it ages ago?

[turbobloke]

Patrick Moore said:

Halley's Comet Society - the second most useless organisation in the world after the United Nations

[Ozzie Osmond]

"Rockall is 19m high, 25m across and 30m wide."

Hence presumably the expression, "this car's worth the square root of rock all".

OzOs

[Puggit]

According to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (ratified by the UK), as Rockall is uninhabitable, it cannot provide a base for an exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.

The Falklands are inhabitable, so there is no comparison.