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.

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 ...

Canada, with Arctic territory second only to Russia, has just one deepwater port offering access to the Arctic Ocean, and it ...

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 ...

Hoping to map and study the changing shoreline, ... The archipelago sits in the Arctic Ocean, north from western Russia. Google Translate was used to translate the news releases from the Russian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia has completed the second reactor and ship for nuclear-powered transport in the Arctic Ocean. Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corp., or Rosatom, announced this week the completion of a second ...

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.