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reality and the importance of which arc 

 clearly evidenced by a long usage. 



5. The system of straight baselines may 

 not be applied by a State in such a manner 

 as to cut od from the high seas the terri- 

 torial sea of another State. 



6. The coastal State must clearly indicate 

 straight baselines on charts, to which due 

 publicity must be given. 



Article 5 



1. Waters on the landward side of the 

 baseline of the territorial sea form part of 

 the internal waters of the State. 



2. Where the establishment of a straight 

 baseline in accordance with article 4 has the 

 effect of enclosing as internal waters areas 

 which previously had been considered as 

 part of the territorial sea or of the high 

 seas, a right of innocent passage, as provided 

 in articles 14 to 23, shall exist in those 

 waters. 



Article 6 



The outer limit of the territorial sea is 

 the line every point of which is at a distance 

 from the nearest point of the baseline equal 

 to the breadth of the territorial sea. 



Article 7 



1. This article relates only to bays the 

 coasts of which belong to a single State. 



2. For the purposes of these articles, a bay 

 is a well-marked indentation whose penetra- 

 tion is in such proportion to the width of 

 its mouth as to contain landlocked waters 

 and constitute more than a mere curvature 

 of the coast. An indentation shall not, how- 

 ever, be regarded as a bay unless its area 

 is as large as, or larger than, that of the semi- 

 circle whose diameter is a line drawn across 

 the mouth of that indentation. 



3. For the purpose of measurement, the 

 area of an indentation is that lying between 

 the low-water mark around the shore of the 

 indentation and a line joining the low- 

 waicr marks of Its natural entrance points. 



Where, because of the presence of islands, 

 an indentation has more than one mouth, 

 the semi-circle shall be drawn on a line as 

 long as the sum total of the lengths of the 

 lines across the different mouths. Islands 

 within an indentation shall be included as 

 if they were part of the water area of the 

 indentation. 



4. If the distance between the low-water 

 marks of the natural entrance points of a 

 bay does not exceed twenty-four miles, a 

 closing line may be drawn between these two 

 low-water marks, and the waters enclosed 

 thereby shall be considered as internal 

 waters. 



5. Where the distance between the low- 

 water marks of the natural entrance points 

 of a bay exceeds twenty-four miles, a straight 

 baseline of twenty-four miles shall be drawn 

 within the bay in such a manner as to 

 enclose the maximum area of water that is 

 possible with a line of that length. 



6. The foregoing provisions shall not 

 apply to scKalled "historic" bays, or in any 

 case where the straight baseline system pro- 

 vided for in article 4 is applied. 



Article 8 



For the purpose of delimiting the terri- 

 torial sea, the outermost permanent harbour 

 works which form an integral part of the 

 harbour system shall be regarded as forming 

 part of the coast. 



Article 9 



Roadsteads which are normally used for 

 the loading, unloading and anchoring of 

 ships, and which would otherwise be situ- 

 ated wholly or partly outside the outer 

 limit of the territorial sea, are included in 

 the territorial sea. The coastal State must 

 clearly demarcate such roadsteads and in- 

 dicate them on charts together with their 

 boundaries, to which due publicity must be 

 given. 



