Adding a Gakkel Ridge Regime to the Evolving Arctic Ocean Governance Complex

• Published in: Marine Policy
• Main Author: Kullerud, Lars
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic governance; Arctic ocean; Arctic ocean governance; Extended continental shelf; Gakkel ridge; International Seabed Authority (ISA); Law of the seas; The Area; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/17/2; name=International political science; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Gakkel Ridge; Greenland; Ilulissat; Norway; Central Arctic; Ilulissat Declaration; Law of the Sea
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/74b4c7a7-34f3-497f-bbb7-677f98e2d3ae; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104270; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094612229&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85094612229&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Four of the Arctic Ocean coastal states (Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, and Russia) have articulated claims to extended seabed jurisdiction in the Arctic Ocean. The fifth coastal state, the United States, is collecting data to document a similar claim. This will “leave behind” an area of some 15...