Canada, U.S. to team up on Arctic seabed mapping project, 6-30-08

The United States and Canada, which have been known to disagree on certain Arctic sovereignty claims, will collaborate for the first time on a United Nations scientific mapping project aimed at extending their sovereignty in the Arctic.

Canadian officials said Canadian and American icebreakers will head northward later this summer to map the Canada Basin, located north of the Beaufort Sea.

CBC News, 6-30-08