Lomonosovryggen : Review of Gunnar D. Hansson, Lomonsovryggen (Gråbo: Anthropos Förlag 2009)

• The book reviewed is a literary work written by the Swedish poet Gunnar D. Hansson based on his participation on a Swedish expedition to the North Pole. During the course of the expedition on the icebreaker Oden II geomorphological and echos sounding was done on the Lomonosov Range that stretches across the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. Hansson muses on this task that was commissioned by Denmark to boost its future claim to extend its continental shelf above Greenland preparatory to gas and oil exploration and exploatation. He also deals with past episodes in Arctic exploration. The review is from the point of view of history of ideas and science.

Keyword

Lomonosoff Ridge

Arctic

oil exploration

politics

continental shelf

UNCLOS

Arctic Council

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

rec (subject category)