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The area northeast of Greenland

Map showing the potential claim area (grey tone) with an approximate size of 63,000 km². The Greenland exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is shown in red, Norway’s EEZ from Svalbard and Jan Mayen respectively in yellow. The 350 nautical mile limit line is shown in blue. The agreed boundaries between Greenland and Svalbard and Greenland and Jan Mayen are shown in green.

Multibeam bathymetric data acquired along the East Greenland Ridge during the LOMROG cruise in 2007. Further data acquisition is planned in either 2010 or 2012. (Background grid from IBCAO. Figure: Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University)

The area of interest off North-East Greenland is bordered by the exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of Svalbard (Norway) to the north, Jan Mayen (Norway) to the south and Greenland to the west. Depending on whether the East Greenland Ridge can be regarded as a submarine elevation according to article 76 of UNCLOS, the potential claim area can have a size of approximately 65,000km².

The Continental Shelf Project has in 2002 in cooperation with Bergen University collected refraction and reflection seismic data. Results of these investigations have been published in an international scientific journal (Døssing, A., Dahl-Jensen, T., Thybo, H. Mjelde, R. & Nishimura, Y. 2008: East Greenland Ridge in the North Atlantic Ocean: An integrated geophysical study of a continental sliver in a boundary transform fault setting. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, 33 pp.)

At the end of the LOMROG cruise in 2007 bathymetric and seismic data were acquired in the area.