Race For The Arctic Circle

Certainly not Canada as we cannot even defend against the Imperialist urges of the Danish scourge.

I dont know about that - for if we as citizens of this great nation band together and speak loud enough, our government will be forced to both listen, and act.

You are out of your mind -- our citizens banding together? By the time we considered everyone's point of view, including the Danes, the Americans and the Russians (not to mention aboriginals and our compatriots from Quebec) and figured out how to avoid offending anyone, global warming will have come and gone. The most vigorous defence we will have mounted is a "tsk, tsk, we wouldn't have done it that way" or possibly an emphatic "omigosh, you're not going to take action, are you?".

Including Canada in your list of 'Players' is very optimistic, Canada has no Arctic capabilities that would allow us to exercise sovereignty over the territory in question. A few dozen military guys on an outpost on Ellesmere Island is not much. Canada doesn't even have the capability to monitor the Arctic, let alone operate in it. Maybe the rest of the world will let us keep it all just because we think we're nice. And we can always make good speeches chastizing others for their failings.

"Canada doesn't even have the capability to monitor the Arctic,"<br />
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Ummmm, radarsat2, anyone?<br />
<a href="http://www.radarsat2.info/">http://www.radarsat2.info/</a><br />
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A satellite image? that doesn't tell us much - foreign ships and subs still have the freedom to roam around wherever they want, land their sailors on what used to be Canada, put up their national flags etc. And that's just the foreign nations - oil & mineral companies are doing their own thing...

Clouds and icebergs are just two of the things that will mess up radarsat's images.

You must not have read the link I provided. Radar has the ability to detect motion, and therefore track ships. The wavelength of the radar is unaffected by clouds or ice.

One of it's features is to provide 1:20,000 mapping of the land and sea bed.


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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill