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Governing the Arctic Ocean

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In the 2008 Ilulissat Declaration, the five central Arctic states committed themselves to an orderly settlement of any overlapping claims in the Arctic. Nevertheless, the situation in the high north remains a crucial test for the functionality of the law of the sea.

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Figure 1: Four 'doughnut holes' (green areas).
Figure 2: One consecutive deep sea bed area in the centre of the Arctic Ocean (blue area).

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