Are you trying to agitate for war over resources, Sven? If so please don't.

Anyhow here is a map of the region that is useful

From your linked article, that you just slapped up with no commentary.

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Canada, Norway, Russia, the United States and Denmark -- which governs Greenland -- all have a shoreline within the Arctic Circle, and have a 200-mile (320-km) economic zone around the north of their coastlines.

Russian officials say they are entitled to a bigger share. They base the claim on the contention that the Lomonosov ridge, a vast underwater mountain range that runs underneath the Arctic, is an extension of the Siberian continental shelf.

Under the United Nations Law of the Sea treaty, any state with an Arctic coastline that wishes to stake a claim to a greater share of the Arctic must lodge its submission with the U.N.'s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

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And frankly, from all of the neo-con governments pushing global warming further and faster, it makes one wonder if they are doing it so the ice melts.

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Originally posted by remind:
Are you trying to agitate for war over resources, Sven?

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