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The new Great Game has melting Arctic ice all over it
Could heightened strategic interest in the High North push the US closer to ratifying Unclos?
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A fifth of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas reserves lie beneath Arctic ice.
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In late December, as the world prepared for the Christmas holiday season, the United States announced on the State Department website that it had extended its continental shelf in several key regions of the world, but principally the Arctic.
In all, the US mapping – conducted over 20 years – led it to claim rights to an additional 987,700 sq km, an area about twice the size of California.
