huffingtonpost:

Who owns the North Pole? Nobody yet knows. The five nations bordering the Arctic Ocean - Canada, Denmark (through Greenland), Norway, Russia and the United States - are in the process of bidding for the legal right to exploit the resources of vast tracts of seabed they claim to be extensions of their respective continental shelves.
7 Crazy Facts You Should Know About The Arctic

Key word here is exploit….

huffingtonpost:

Who owns the North Pole? Nobody yet knows. The five nations bordering the Arctic Ocean - Canada, Denmark (through Greenland), Norway, Russia and the United States - are in the process of bidding for the legal right to exploit the resources of vast tracts of seabed they claim to be extensions of their respective continental shelves.

7 Crazy Facts You Should Know About The Arctic

Key word here is exploit….