417. Bangladesh argues that Myanmar is not entitled to a continental shelf
beyond 200 nm because it cannot meet the physical test of natural
prolongation in article 76, paragraph 1, which requires evidence of a
geological character connecting the seabed and subsoil directly to the land
territory. According to Bangladesh, there is overwhelming and unchallenged
evidence of a “fundamental discontinuity” between the landmass of Myanmar
and the seabed beyond 200 nm. Bangladesh contends that the tectonic plate
boundary between the Indian and Burma Plates is manifestly “a marked
disruption or discontinuance of the seabed” that serves as “an indisputable
indication of the limits of two separate continental shelves, or two separate
natural prolongations”