Only having just got used to the idea that the arctic ocean could soon be somewhat navigable and that the tundra is defrosting we now find that a land-grab is undeway on the shores of said ocean. DEnmark are hoping to prove that Greenland's continental shelf [so to speak] extends quite a way into the arctic to bolster their claims on the are. And the reason? Torquil Meedon, a senior official at Denmark's ministry of science and technology, said: "Climate changes indicate that ice in the Polar Sea may disappear within 50 to 100 years. That will open up the north-west passage as a new and valuable shipping route. It will also be open to fishing, and the oil and gas reserves which may prove significant. Who knows how valuable the rights to the North Pole could be 100 years from now?"
The New Zealand Herald
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