Changes in Latitudes Call for Changes in Attitudes: Towards Recognition of a Global Imperative for Stewardship, Not Exploitation, in the Arctic

• Main Author: Simpson-Wood, Taylor
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Sea; Vessel; Travel; Atlantic; Ocean; Pacific; Northwest Passage; Arctic Circle; Bering Strait; Ship; Ice; Civil Rights and Discrimination; Comparative and Foreign Law; Environmental Law; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; International Law; International Trade Law; Jurisdiction; Land Use Law; Law; Law and Race; Natural Law; Natural Resources Law; Oil; Gas; and Mineral Law; Breaker; Lanes; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol37/iss4/6; https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2245&context=sulr

For more than two centuries, the imagination of mariners has been captured by visions of a trade route across the Arctic Sea allowing vessels to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Northwest Passage, this fabled route is a time- and money-saving sea lane running from the Atla...