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continental shelf

portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea
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Summary

continental shelf ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,543 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: landform[2], shallow[3]
  • Commons category: Continental shelf[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Continental shelves[5]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[8]
  • Different from: continental rise[9], continental slope[10]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000223[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

Why It Matters

continental shelf has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1XkqjZ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0386341-kontinentalni-selfy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0386341-kontinentalni-selfy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → landform, shallow
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → ['4693749', '2093266']
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 13833, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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