Sunday, January 20, 2008

High Tech Mapping Starts to Redefine International Borders

Two and a half miles below the icy surface of the North Pole, a robotic arm extending from a submarine jammed a 3-foot Russian flag into the ocean floor. The audacious move was heralded as the beginning of what could become a mad scrum over trillions of dollars in oil in one of the last regions on earth where geopolitical lines are not yet drawn.

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