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The US, Canada and Russia have launched competing expeditions to map the bottom of the sea near the North Pole.
More than a third of the world's undiscovered gas and a tenth of its oil reserves are estimated to be in the region. So the race is on to claim ownership of the pole.
But it is not yet clear how the pie will be divided between the five nations closest to the North Pole.