Perhaps the most important news of the day -- although it seems to be getting only very moderate press.
There will be no flag waving or patriotic chest thumping, but Canadian scientists are set to make one of this country's most important assertions of Arctic sovereignty in decades Friday at a geology conference in Norway.
A year after Russian scientists planted their nation's flag on the North Pole seabed -- a controversial demonstration of their country's interest in securing control over a vast undersea mountain chain stretching across the Arctic Ocean from Siberia to Ellesmere Island and Greenland -- Canadian researchers have teamed with Danish scientists to offer proof that the Lomonosov Ridge is, in fact, a natural extension of the North American continent.
Full story here:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=705136
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