Okay, maybe not all the way to Miami but as far as they think they can get away with.
As the headline at Eye on the Arctic says:
‘You cannot claim any more:’ Russia seeks bigger piece of Arctic
Russia wants to stretch out imaginary lines on the ocean floor — and below it — and that has one northern security expert worried about consequences for other Arctic countries like Canada.
Last week, Russia filed a submission to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to extend a claim to the Arctic Ocean seabed.
The UN still has to review the submission but, if it’s approved, Russia would have exclusive rights to resources in the seabed and below it, and not in the water.
The new submission would push Russia’s claim all the way up to Canada’s exclusive economic zone, an area 200 nautical miles from the coastline, in which Canadians have sole rights to fish, drill and pursue other economic activities.
Philip Steinberg, a political geography professor at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom, estimates Russia’s submission expands its original claim by about 705,000 square kilometres.
‘A maximalist submission’Robert Huebert, a political science professor at the University of Calgary, said Russia’s request gets as close to Canada’s 200-mile limit as possible.
“This is a maximalist submission. You cannot claim any more,” said Huebert, an Arctic security and defence analyst with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies....
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From Durham University via Arctic Today (Miami is off to the left in this view):
A map from Durham University shows the extent of Russia’s enlarged claims to Arctic Ocean seabed submitted under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The bright yellow shows Russia’s Exclusive Economic Zone, while the paler yellow shows its CLCS claims, with the dotted line demarcating areas added in the newly extended claim. (IBRU: Centre for Borders Research / Durham University)
Also via Eye on the Arctic, April 12:
Heavily-armed frigate sails Norwegian Sea to “ensure safety of Russian fishermen”
