Russia gets approval for the data behind much of its Arctic Ocean seabed claim

But the approving recommendations from a UN Commission doesn't settle overlapping claims between Russia, Canada and Denmark/Greenland.

After more than 20 years of extensive diplomacy and expeditions with icebreakers, research vessels and submarines under the polar sea ice, Russia has received approving recommendations of the majority of its claim to the rights to the seabed in the central parts of the Arctic Ocean from the UN’s Commission for the Limitation of the Continental Shelf, the CLCS.