War at the Top of the World: The Battle for the Arctic Shelf

by Chris Knowles

On August 4th, 2015, Russia submitted a claim to the the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, established by the Law of the Sea Convention, to over 463,000 square miles of seabed within its 44% sector of the Arctic Ocean. The claim included not only the already-acknowledged territorial waters which extend 12 nautical miles Northward from the Russian coastline and the Exclusive Economic Zone which extends 200 nautical miles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517715253
• ISBN13: 9781517715250
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"