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Denmark Is The Latest Country To Claim The North Pole As Its Own
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6 years ago

Denmark Is The Latest Country To Claim The North Pole As Its Own

Chris Mills

Although you might think that the North Pole is nothing but a barren wilderness populated only by polar bears and Santa, a surprisingly large number of countries are getting surprisingly bitchy about who owns it — mostly because of the oil underneath. Today, Denmark added its name to the list.

7 years ago

Watch An Insanely Relaxing Flight Across The Arctic Ice Plains, By NASA

Eric Limer

What you see here is some of the best footage shot from the front and back mounted cameras on one of the P-3B aircraft that runs NASA’s IceBridge missions. These vistas are from the spring mission over Greenland and the Arctic, but NASA’s going back for more this fall.

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