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An Off-the-Shelf Guide to Extended Continental Shelves and the Arctic
A Canadian Coast Guard Ship in the Arctic Ocean. (U.S. Geological Survey, https://flic.kr/p/7EbKVD; CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
On March 31, the Russian Federation partially revised its submission for an “extended” continental shelf in the Arctic, further overlapping Russia’s claims with Canada’s and Denmark’s. Despite political and academic experts calling for a calm response, CBC, Canada’s largest broadcaster, framed the submission in dire terms. Canadian academic Robert Huebert described Russia’s claim as worrying and related to Russian troop movements in Ukraine.