Canada’s claims to the North Pole are no more than ambition,” declared Russian polar explorer and scientist Artur Chilingarov on December 11, whom President Vladimir Putin named a “Hero of ...

A scientific mission to map the seabed surrounding the North Pole got underway Friday amid Canada's push to claim the area and surrounding Arctic waters ahead of Russia and others.

Russia and Canada have overlapping claims to both the North Pole Ottawa: A scientific mission to map the seabed surrounding the North Pole got underway on Friday amid Canada’s push to claim the ...

Canada has set up a fight against Russia and Denmark for claims to vast portions of the Arctic seabed, including the North Pole - triggering potential boundary negotiations in the future.

The Canadian government is claiming 463,323 square miles (1.2 million square kilometers) in the Arctic, a wide expanse of territory that includes the North Pole. Trouble is, Canada hasn’t yet ...

Canada intends to lay claim to the North Pole as part of a bid to assert control over a large part of the resource-rich Arctic, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Monday. Baird said Canada had ...

Earth’s magnetic North Pole is heading to Russia, ... WMM is actually a map of Earth’s magnetic field. ... the North American lobe beneath Canada and the Siberian lobe under Siberia.

Send in the drones! The cold war between Russia and Canada for acquisition of the North Pole just heated up. Between August 18 and 26, Canada sent a team from the Department of National Defence on ...

In mid-November 2024, several news outlets published articles claiming the magnetic North Pole was "moving toward Russia." Several Snopes readers wrote to ask us whether the reporting was true and ...

The magnetic North Pole is on a journey toward Russia in a way that has not been seen before. The British Geological Survey (BGS) works with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

For centuries, the magnetic north pole steadily tracked along Canada's northern shore. But in recent decades, it has taken a new path, accelerating across the Arctic Ocean toward Russia's Siberia ...