*gasp!* Canada defends it's barren ice islands
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:52 pm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1444388.htm
The Canadian Government is sending two warships north to the Arctic Ocean as part of efforts to assert territorial claims.
The move comes amid a dispute between Canada and the Danish territory of Greenland about which of them has sovereignty over Hans Island, a square kilometre of uninhabited rock in the Arctic.
Canada is deeply worried that it has taken what it considers its Arctic territory for granted.
It is also believed that global warming is causing the rapid melting of the ice across the Arctic and that could make the legendary North-West Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans passable for ships for the first time.
The United States has already warned that it regards the passage as an international strait, not Canadian waters.
Russia, Norway and Denmark also have competing claims to the continental shelf and the natural resources such as gas and oil that may lie beneath the seabed.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3595, old post ID:29274
The Canadian Government is sending two warships north to the Arctic Ocean as part of efforts to assert territorial claims.
The move comes amid a dispute between Canada and the Danish territory of Greenland about which of them has sovereignty over Hans Island, a square kilometre of uninhabited rock in the Arctic.
Canada is deeply worried that it has taken what it considers its Arctic territory for granted.
It is also believed that global warming is causing the rapid melting of the ice across the Arctic and that could make the legendary North-West Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans passable for ships for the first time.
The United States has already warned that it regards the passage as an international strait, not Canadian waters.
Russia, Norway and Denmark also have competing claims to the continental shelf and the natural resources such as gas and oil that may lie beneath the seabed.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3595, old post ID:29274