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Hello Maddog , good to see an offshore man , did some rotation on the Frigg field in the North sea some years back , the pay was most excellent
plantagenet Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:00 am
I wonder if the subs will pick up Russia's titanium flag that it has already planted there
on the Arctic Ocean sea-floor to claim ownership
http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com ... sians-textthis was a Swedish / Australian expedition with the Russians trailing along
in a radio interview given to the Aust. Broad. Comm.
Mike Mc Dowell affirmed having put an Australian flag on the sea bed too
planting a flag is not a territorial claim per see ,
the U.S. do not claim the moon for having put their flag there ,
It's a claim of having been there !
negotiation on the arctic will follow the usual poker game , claim counter claim
historical reach ( guess the nationality of Lomonosov )
it will end up with mineral exploitation rights officially granted
with the north pole as a fixed geographic origin of the lines of claims
Russia and Canada don't really have any disagreement on the sharing of the pie
The U.S. will probably delay the proceeding some , until oil scarcity start to bite
the only tricky part is around the Spitsbergen archipelago and the Greenland /Danish/Russian line