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Commentary
Nature Geoscience 2, 310–313 (1 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/ngeo510
Governing the Arctic Ocean
Abstract
When two Russian mini-submarines reached the seabed more than 4,000 m beneath the North Pole on 1 August 2007 and planted a Russian flag in an attempt to bolster the country's claim on the natural resources of the respective seabed area, newspaper headlines were dramatic. Time magazine declared a “Fight for the top of the world” and The Times predicted the beginning of a new mineral war, while the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda celebrated the successful and record-breaking dive by printing a large map of the North Pole showing the alleged 'addition' to the Russian territory — the size of France, Germany and Italy combined — under a white, blue and red Russian flag.
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