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joint submission amendments. • Meetings were held with Palau to discuss maritime boundariesnegotiationswithIndonesiaandPhilippines. • Marine spatial planning training was provided using quantum GIS (QGIS) software. • Advanced Geocap training was provided on the seafloor module and its integration with QGIS. • Technical infrastructure was provided to four countries (Kiribati, Vanuatu, Cook Islands and Fiji) and SPC/ SOPAC for offline access to the PacGeo marine spatial planning portal (see also section 5D+ below).

the Commonwealth Secretariat, Geoscience Australia, Geocap AS 26 and the University of Sydney, GRID-Arendal co-hosted the latest Pacific Maritime Boundaries working session. During this July workshop: • States met to negotiate bilateral maritime boundaries. • Technical teams fromPapua NewGuinea, the Solomon Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia worked together to finalise the Ontong Java continental shelf

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Extended continental shelf of seven West African coastal states. This map is taken from the Executive Summary of the joint submission by the seven West African countries (Cabo Verde, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone) to the CLCS. The map shows the area outside the coast of the seven states, where the purple line marks the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and the red line indicates the outer limits of the extended continental shelf (ECS).

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