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Arctic Region

A short guide to the Arctic region, which makes up 1/6th of the earth's surface

A look at the physical and social geography of the Arctic region as foreign ministers meet in Greenland to set rules for how to divide up the vast reserves of untapped oil and gas that are thought to lie beneath the Arctic seabed. With David Shukman, 麻豆社 science correspondent, Martina Tyrrell, social anthropologist and Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics.

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8 minutes

麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project