Six years have passed since the Russian researchers have set up their national flag near the North Pole. Since that fateful day in discussions about the Arctic is dominated by themes of possible conflict over energy resources, new transport links, the environment and biological resources. News about the accomplishments of the region come every year.
At the end in Kiruna ministerial meeting - members of the Arctic Council summed up the results of two years of the Swedish presidency of the organization. The title of chairman moved to Canada. On the outcome of the meeting, "The Voice of Russia," said the representative of the Russian Federation in the Arctic Council, the special envoy Anton Vasilyev.
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Knud Rasmussen was born to a pastor, and his mother was half-Inuit origin. The family had three children. Rasmussen told from childhood in Greenlandic. At age 12, he was sent to Denmark to study, and in 1895 his father was transferred to Lynge (Zealand), and the family moved to Denmark. From 1898 to 1900 he studied Rasmussen in Copenhagen, then worked as a reporter for several newspapers and made the trip to Lapland.
In 2012, Russia is going to submit a request to the UN to expand the limits of its continental shelf of the Arctic in order to attach to its exclusive economic zone of 200 miles length is 1.2 km2, presumably rich fossil hydrocarbons. The basis for this claim are two underwater ridge (the ridge Mendeleev and Lomonosov Ridge). This statement may result in the presentation of human responses to the territory from Canada and Denmark.
It seems that the epoch of geographical opening is the remote past. However still there lives the generation studying at school geography on cards, differing from the present. For example, island of October revolution for the first time have plotted only in the early thirties of the XX-th century. Happens so because it is in Arctic regions - the country of riddles and polar bears. Here courage of trailblazers, ridiculous errors, infinite natural riches and a big-times politics were weaved into a ball.
