Mead Treadwell: Arctic horizons primer and critical questions on extending U.S. territory in Arctic Ocean

By MEAD TREADWELL For many years now, the five Arctic Coastal states have conducted bathymetric and geologic work in the Arctic Ocean region toward what some observers have –-alarmingly but falsely — called a competitive “land grab:” the extension of national sovereignty outside the 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone.    A process for claiming these huge […] The post Mead Treadwell: Arctic horizons primer and critical questions on extending U.S. territory in Arctic Ocean appeared first on Must Read Alaska.