IT SEEMS unlikely that governments will ever make the a “hands-off” zone by signing an accord akin to the Antarctic treaty. But thanks to a rarely quoted section of international law, a big chunk of the Arctic is already safe from national claims, according to , head of the Arctic Ocean geopolitics programme at Cambridge University’s . He hopes the revelation will offer the opportunity to make the North Pole a “pole of peace”.
In London last week, Berkman told the UK’s Royal Society that the Arctic Ocean centres on an area…
