U.S. ship heads for Arctic to define territory | Reuters - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Aug 08
  

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  A U.S. Coast Guard cutter will embark on an Arctic voyage this week to determine the extent of the continental shelf north of Alaska and map the ocean floor, data that could be used for oil and natural gas

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  • This will be the fourth year that the United States has collected data to define the limits of its continental shelf in the Arctic.
  • Russia, which has claimed 460,000 square miles of Arctic waters, last summer planted its flag on the ocean floor of the North Pole.

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