{"id":22648,"date":"2024-04-20T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22648"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:16:10","slug":"salas-y-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/salas-y-gomez\/","title":{"rendered":"Salas y G\u00f3mez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Salas y G\u00f3mez<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an underwater mountain chain in the <strong>Southeastern Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It lies in a west-east orientation. Its western end intersects the East Pacific Rise inside the Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Easter Islands and its eastern end adjoins the western end of <strong>Nazca ridge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ecosystems in this region are isolated by the <strong>Atacama Trench, the Humboldt Current System<\/strong>, and an extreme oxygen minimum zone.<\/li>\n<li>Waters surrounding the Salas y G\u00f3mez and Nazca ridges are mostly located in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), with smaller portions located in the national waters of <strong>Chile and Peru.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This region hosts <strong>unique biodiversity<\/strong> with some of the highest levels of marine endemism on Earth.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the many global locations under consideration for being designated as a high seas marine protected area upon the ratificiation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/united-nations-high-seas-treaty\/\" target=\"_blank\">UN High Seas Treaty<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about United Nations High Seas Treaty<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is known as the \u2018<strong>Paris Agreement for the Ocean\u2019<\/strong>, and the treaty to deal with Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction has been under discussion for several years.<\/li>\n<li>The proposed treaty concerns the ocean existing beyond the <strong>Exclusive Economic Zones<\/strong> (EEZ) that lie from the coast of a country to about 200 nautical miles into the sea (Countries have special rights for exploration till 200 nautical miles).<\/li>\n<li>The treaty was to be negotiated under the United Nations Convention on Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an Exclusive Economic Zone?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an area of the ocean extending up to 200 nautical miles (370 km) immediately offshore from a country&#8217;s land coast in which that country retains exclusive rights to the exploration and exploitation of natural resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/underwater-mountain-range-50-unknon-species-9275531\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists find \u2018pristine\u2019 ocean mountain range with 50 unknown species<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salas y G\u00f3mez is an underwater mountain chain in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}