Denmark

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Denmark ratified UNCLOS on 16 November 2004 and has through 2014 to file a claim to an extended continental shelf. The Kingdom of Denmark declared that the Danish straits including the Great Belt, the Little Belt, and the Danish part of the Sound, formed on the foundation of the Copenhagen Treaty of 1857 are legally Danish territory

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"Russia challenges Denmark over North Pole"  — The Local — August 04, 2015

Russia has submitted new claims for Arctic territories that partially include areas already claimed by Denmark, news source Barents Observer reported.  

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Russia, Arctic, Denmark
"Frozen Conflict: Denmark claims the North Pole"  — Economist — December 20, 2014

Denmark has laid claim to the North Pole, saying that under UNCLOS, some 900,000 square kilometres of the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland belongs to it (Greenland is a self-governing part of Denmark).

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"Denmark makes new claim for Arctic seafloor"  — The Arctic Journal — November 28, 2013

Denmark and Greenland have submitted a claim for 62,000 square kilometres of Arctic sea floor. The claim is the fourth of five that Denmark is expected to submit before a deadline in 2014 – 10 years after signing the UN Convention of the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) – which in total could expand Denmark’s territory by around a million square kilometres.

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