Although you might think that the North Pole is nothing but a barren wilderness dwell only by polar bear and Santa , asurprisingly declamatory turn of countriesare getting surprisingly catty about who owns it — mostly because of the rock oil underneath . Today , Denmark added its name to the list .
https://gizmodo.com/canadas-getting-ready-to-claim-the-north-pole-as-its-o-1475643608
In pillow slip you ’re not up on your North Pole geopolitics , here ’s a quick rundown : everyone with even the faintest Leslie Townes Hope of claim the North Pole wants it , because people opine there ’s a metric ton of mineral and oil lurking under the surface . There ’s five real players in this game , all of whom border the Arctic : the US ( thanks Alaska ! ) , Canada , Russia , Norway and Denmark .
To stake a title to the Arctic and all that mineral goodness involves more than just implant a sword lily there ( not that that stopped Russia ! ): nation have to take that their continental shelf prolong into the Arctic , making it part of their soil , and thus giving them exclusive economic right over the sea trading floor . In exercise , that means paying a squad of scientists flagitious amounts of money to make a plausible case to the UN organic structure that will at last settle this mess .
Only Russia and Canada had bothered doing that , until today . According to an Associated Press paper , the Denmark delivered its title to the UN today . Apparently , there ’s an submersed mountain range of a function that runs 1,240 miles northwards of Siberia , which is attached to Greenland , itself a semi - autonomous Danish dominion . Thus , oil for Denmark !
That sounds about as convincing as all the other pillow slip that have been made to the UN venire so far . I ca n’t opine carving up this whole mess is blend to be easygoing ; let ’s just trust no - one dumbfound in a nuke - lob mood over it . [ Associated Press ]
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