Fixed rules of play for dividing up the Arctic Ocean: The Ilulissat Declaration of the Arctic Coastal States

• Main Author: Winkelmann, Ingo
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) 2008
• Subjects: ddc:320; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Ilulissat; Ilulissat Declaration; Law of the Sea
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/256061

At the end of May 2008 the five countries bordering on the Arctic - Denmark, Canada, Norway, the Russian Federation and the United States of America (known as the 'A5') - adopted a carefully-worded declaration. Known as the Ilulissat Declaration after the place in Greenland where the confe...