Russian scientists are keen on proving that the seabed below the North Pole is part of the Eurasian continental shelf, an area called the Lomonosov Ridge.

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My car, outfitted with a GPS position finder and an off-the-shelf wireless local area network (WLAN) communication system, was tipped off by another car carrying the same gear.

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The new westbound lane would extend three miles past the continental shelf, and contain traffic to a defined area over the whale feeding grounds.

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Congress quietly lifted the ban on offshore oil drilling yesterday, opening the vast waters of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas companies eager to exploit the area's substantial energy resources.

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And in each store it can be located in the cooler, on the shelf or in an end cap, or other promotional display area.

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Chevron has 100 prospective drilling spots in the Gulf of Mexico, but its highest hopes for a resumption of deepwater drilling lay in an area called the Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend, near where the continental shelf drops off into deep water.

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The whales are known to only feed in summer and their main feeding area is in the Piltun Bay which lies at the north eastern part of Sakhalin shelf.

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It put the size of the threatened shelf at about 5, 571 square miles, comparable to the state of Connecticut, or about half the area of Scotland.

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