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Rockall-Faroe Plateau

Volume 27: debated on Monday 12 July 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government consider that the Rockall-Faroe plateau is in the natural prolongation of the British mainland.

Her Majesty's Government consider that the United Kingdom has a valid claim to the area known as the Rockall plateau on the basis of the criterion of natural prolongation.