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Under international law no country owns the North
Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it. This is governed by the
International Seabed Authority.
- The North Pole is a no man's land, which is supervised by a UN
Commission. The five Polar countries - Russia, the U.S.A.,
Canada, Norway and Denmark - each control a 200-mile economic
zone along each of their coasts, none of which, physically reach
the Pole itself.
- Under current UN Maritime conventions, a country's zone can
only be extended if it can prove its continental shelf is a
natural extension of its own territory, and that it can also
show it has a similar geological structure.
- Four out of the five Polar countries have ratified the Law of
the Sea Treaty governing disputes over exploitation rights,
restricting their influence on the Arctic’s future. Only the US
has refused to do so.
For more
questions please go to the FAX page or
the homepage. To order your own claim to
the North Pole
click here. More information about your own claim
you can find here.
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