In 2018 NATO sent an aircraft carrier into the Arctic Circle for the first time in 27 years
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE stretches roughly 9,900 miles around the Earth. It is the line north of which there is at least one day each year of total darkness and one of total light. Eight countries have territory within it: America , Canada, Denmark , Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden.
Arctic states are also competing to control the seabed: melting ice has made mineral deposits and oil- and gasfields more accessible. To stake a claim beyond their territorial waters, which stretches 12 nautical miles from shore, countries must prove the seabed is an extension of their continental shelf—part of the same land mass as their territory. The geology is subjective: Canada, Denmark and Russia all claim the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater mountain range that runs beneath the North Pole.
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