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Claiming the Arctic: on the legal geography of the northernmost sovereignty dispute

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2017

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss data on the ongoing northernmost territorial dispute, stemming from the desire of two nation states, Denmark and Russia, to move their own outer limits of the continental shelf to the central part of the Arctic Ocean. This approach combines geographic and legal analytical perspectives to produce information on particular changes in the maritime delimitation and jurisdiction for both claimant states which have arisen in a number of alternative scenarios of the northernmost dispute resolution.