1. For a detailed analysis on the legal status of islands in international law, see C Yiallourides;The International Lawyer,2016
2. Greenpeace activists broke that record by two days, protesting against exploration, and in 2014 a British explorer was able to survive on Rockall for 45 days using rain-harvesting equipment. See "Rockall -a Timeline;The Guardian,1985
3. Rockall and the limits of national jurisdiction of the UK
4. of a feature to sustain human habitation or an economic life of its own must be addressed by having regard to the principal factors indicating the natural capacity of any given feature to sustain human habitation and economic life (as opposed to mere human survival);the South China Arbitration, the Tribunal found inter alia that the capacity,2016
5. Denmark and others plead that [this] uninhabited skerry cannot be granted the status of an island in the sense of international law;the Danish Foreign Affairs Ministry stated that,1985