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Russian Scientists Say the Arctic Is Theirs



By identifying a geological link between the continental shelf abutting Russia’s Far North and the North pole
by way of a sea-floor feature called the Lomonosov Ridge, Russia could reportedly press a claim to roughly
460,000 square miles of ocean as its territorial waters — an area whose size approaches the Mexican Cession
(529,189 square miles), which added Texas, California and states in between to the United States. (Still short
of the Louisiana Purchase’s 828,000, though.) And Russia wouldn’t be paying a ruble for it, either.

A BBC map ..

shows Russia’s proposal;

this set of maps from The New York Times illustrates
the area at stake and different ways it might be divided.



http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/whats-the-russian-for-santas-workshop/