Russia just claimed a broad swath of the Arctic shelf; why isn’t the US doing the same? | Alaska Dispatch News
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Earlier this week, Russia renewed its claim to 460,000 square miles of territory in the Arctic Ocean — including the North Pole — and the rights to that area’s enormous reserves of energy and mineral resources.
Other countries such as Norway and Denmark are also submitting claims to the United Nations to extend their Arctic jurisdiction into the region of the North Pole. Besides the right to natural resources, owning new Arctic real estate could give these countries control over shipping routes that open as sea ice melts.
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