Translation of "îles de l'Arctique " (French → English) :

The OCTs comprise 25 islands which are spread around the Atlantic, Antarctic, Arctic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Caribbean.

The OCTs comprise 25 islands which are spread around the Atlantic, Antarctic, Arctic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Caribbean.

The Members of the Arctic Council are Arctic states (Canada, Denmark representing both Greenland and the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden and USA).

41. Is aware of the increasing interest in the exploitation of resources; in that regard points out the need for broad all-encompassing ecosystem-based approaches as most likely to be capable of dealing with the multiple challenges facing the Arctic related to climate change, shipping, environmental hazards and contaminants, fisheries and other human activities, along the lines of the EU's Integrated Maritime Policy or Norway's Integrated Management Plan for the Barents Sea and the sea areas of the Lofoten Islands; recommends the Member States to endorse the revised Arctic Council Offshore Oil and Gas Guidelines of 2009;

I urge us all to get behind and enthusiastically support the proposed initiatives to, first, establish and have confirmed and recognized internationally, once and for all, our sovereignty in the Arctic, and especially over the Northwest Passage — and, honourable senators, as Prime Minister Harper has said repeatedly, we must use it, and we cannot afford to lose it; second, to improve living conditions in the North for First Nations and Inuit through better housing; third, to build a world-class Arctic research station that will be on the cutting edge of Arctic issues, including environmental science and resource development — a researc ...[+++]h station built in the Arctic by and for Canadians but also to serve the global community; fourth, to complete the comprehensive mapping of Canada's Arctic seabed; fifth, to build eight new Arctic patrol ships to complement increased aerial surveillance in guarding Canada's Far North, including the Northwest Passage; sixth, expanding the size and capabilities of the Arctic Rangers so they can better patrol our vast Arctic territory; seventh, the development of an Arctic warfare training centre and the deployment on an ongoing basis of at least 1,000 Canadian soldiers in the Arctic; and finally, the construction of a modern state-of-the-art and fully equipped deepwater port at Nanisivik on northern Baffin Island.

However since conventional submarines rely on fossil fuels to charge the batteries that permit them to operate underwater, it would be highly unlikely for a conventional submarine to venture on a distant operation such as the Canadian Arctic without surface vessel support and go undetected on such a voyage. g) and h) With the exception of tiny Hans Island, claimed by Denmark, no one disputes Canada’s sovereignty over the lands and islands of the Canadian arctic.