 The United Kingdom claimed Rockall in 1955 and incorporated it as a part of Scotland in 1972.The UK does not make a claim to extended EEZ based on Rockall, as it has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) which says that "rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf".However, such features are entitled to a territorial sea extending .