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Canada to Claim North Pole

Posted December 11, 2013 9:07 AM

From Discovery News:

Canada signaled intentions to claim the North Pole and surrounding Arctic waters while announcing the filing of a UN application seeking to vastly expand its Atlantic sea boundary.

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12/11/2013 9:21 AM

Ho Ho HO!!!!
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12/11/2013 4:21 PM

When the USN nuclear submarine, U.S.S. Nautilus, transited the North Pole "underwater" in August 1957, didn't she throw-out a US flag at the North Pole? That'd sorta "stake" a US Claim, me thinks.

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12/11/2013 7:23 PM

What was Peary's nationality?

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12/12/2013 8:12 AM

This article points out some of the details, but the author is out of his mind, if he thinks this will all amount to nothing. Keep dreaming buddy.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/russia/131211/russia-using-military-might-stake-claims-north-pole-energ

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12/12/2013 9:47 AM

Since there is no land there and the ice is melting, what have they really claimed?

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12/12/2013 10:08 AM

Oil, NG and mineral rights.

Believe it or not, even China is trying to get into the act.

http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.com/2013/06/china-stakes-its-claim-to-arctic.html

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12/12/2013 1:34 PM

Liability for thinning ice caps is one possibility.

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12/12/2013 1:56 PM

For your tag line:

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