The Great Game is heading to the Arctic.
Just days before Christmas, Denmark has become the first country to lay formal claim over the North Pole. That puts the small Nordic country of 5.6m people on a diplomatic collision course with Russia and Canada which each claim part of the Arctic above where the countries’ current borders end.
“That these countries have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the determination of their outer limits tells us how important the Arctic has become. The Great Game is moving to the north,” said Rob Huebert, Arctic expert at the University of Calgary.
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