The map is the 4.0 version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO), an initiative that was created in 1997 in Saint Petersburg (Russia) in order to map the depths of the ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

The following month, Russia and China sent patrol boats through icy waters of the high north. The U.S. and Russia are only 53 miles apart across the Bering Strait, near the Arctic Circle.

Map of Arctic routes. NOAA Image. Russia’s military presence in the Arctic peaked during ... the Northern Fleet is the only Europe-based Russian fleet with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean ...

The archipelago sits in the Arctic Ocean, north from western Russia. Google Translate was used to translate the news releases from the Russian GeographicalSociety. Read Next ...

In a further sign of its intent, the Kremlin announced that four strategic bombers were to make training flights over the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean. Rival expeditions. Russia's claim to a vast ...

Four Arctic experts say it would take the West at least 10 years to catch up with Russia’s military in the region, if it chose to do so. “The Arctic is currently a dark area on the map ...

If the CLCS agrees with it, Russia’s continental shelf in the Central Arctic Ocean would seem to consist of 516,400 square nautical miles (684,000 square miles) — an area larger than Libya ...

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies, nations are staking claims to swaths of undersea territory where oil, gas, and other minerals could someday be found and mined. The ...

For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, testing intelligence operations there before replicating them across Europe.

On Feb. 6 2023, the commission handed down its recommendations in response to Moscow’s extended Arctic continental shelf submission. Deliberating on information provided by Russia’s partially revised ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Russia has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border, according to The Economist.