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 Russia has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border, according to The Economist.

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 ...

This map shows the massive scale of Russia's planned fortification of the Arctic By Jeremy Bender 2015-03-17T16:31:00Z ...

As the US and Russia spar over the Arctic, Putin creates new facts on the ground By Zahra Ullah and Fred Pleitgen , CNN 7 minute read ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That’s why, for instance, the large archipelago Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Ocean bears a non-Russian name, despite belonging to Russia. Discovered by Austrian explorers in 1873, it was named ...

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.