Protecting The Northwest Passage: Assessing The Threat Of Year-Round Shipping To The Marine Ecosystem And The Adequacy Of The Current Environmental Regulatory Regimes

• Main Author: King, Hannah E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Maine School of Law Digital Commons 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Labyrinth; Northwest Passage; Pacific; Arctic Archipelago; Global warming; inuit; Law of the Sea; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/oclj/vol14/iss2/7; https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=oclj

The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (the Archipelago) extends for 3000 kilometers along the northern coast of mainland Canada. Made up of seventy-three large islands, each over 125 kilometers long, and more than 18,000 smaller islands, the Archipelago forms a twisting labyrinth of straits and narrow cha...