By MEAD TREADWELL For many years now, the five Arctic Coastal states have conducted bathymetric and geologic work in the Arctic Ocean region toward what some observers have –-alarmingly but falsely — called a competitive “land grab:” the extension of national sovereignty outside the 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone.    A process for claiming these huge […]

The post Mead Treadwell: Arctic horizons primer and critical questions on extending U.S. territory in Arctic Ocean appeared first on Must Read Alaska.