After Russia and Canada, U.S. ship headed for Arctic http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1337524620070813?sp=true
Mon Aug 13, 2007
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Coast Guard cutter is headed to the Arctic this week on a mapping mission to determine whether part of this area can be considered U.S. territory, after recent polar forays by Russia and Canada.
The four-week cruise of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy starts Friday and aims to map the sea floor on the northern Chukchi Cap, an underwater plateau that extends from Alaska's North Slope some 500 miles northward. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1337524620070813?sp=true