when the oil fields start in earnest, imagine trying to tell "Ivan" 'you may have a flag down there, but it's ours too'
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Cold War could get REALLY cold?
MOSCOW ? An expedition aimed at strengthening Russia's claim to much of the Arctic Ocean region reached the North Pole on Wednesday afternoon, as preparations began for two mini-submarines to drop a capsule containing a Russian flag to the sea floor, a spokesman said.
The Rossiya atomic icebreaker had plowed a path to the pole through an unbroken sheet of multiyear ice, clearing the way for the Akademik Fedorov research ship to follow behind, said Sergei Balyasnikov, a spokesman for the Arctic and Antarctic research institute that prepared the expedition.
The voyage, led by noted polar explorer and Russian legislator Artur Chilingarov, has some scientific goals, including the study of Arctic plants and animals. But its chief aim appears to be to advance Russia's political and economic influence by strengthening its legal claims to the gas and oil deposits thought to lie beneath the Arctic sea floor.
The expedition reflects an intense rivalry among Russia, the United States, Canada and other countries whose shores face the northern polar ocean for the Arctic's icebound riches.
About 100 scientists aboard the Akademik Fyodorov are looking for evidence that the Lomonosov Ridge ? a 1,995-kilometre underwater mountain range that crosses the polar region ? is a geologic extension of Russia, and therefore can be claimed by it under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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