History of the North Pole: From Imagined Territory to Battlefield

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The almost mystical loneliness of polar voyages has given way to the Arctic becoming the last frontier to explode from the three major empires of today, the United States, Russia and China. Polar fever, like that of gold in its day, is bringing forth incalculable riches (oil, liquefied gas, freshwater reserves, fishing, gold, uranium, rare earths indispensable for new technologies...) as the thaw deepens.Keep reading...