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It’s a mistake seen in the maps issued by Elections Canada, the National Research Council and the Canadian Armed Forces. It’s even in the official Atlas of Canada and on hundreds of relief maps hung up in schoolrooms across the country.

For nearly 100 years, the government of Canada has been printing official maps incorrectly pretending that it owns a U.K.-sized chunk of international waters.

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“There’s no such thing as having a border hundreds of miles from your territorial lands,” says Heather Exner-Pirot, managing editor of the peer-reviewed Arctic Yearbook.

The mistake, seen on almost every official map issued by Canadian federal agencies, claims that the Canadian border extends all the way to the North Pole.

In reality, the only recognized pieces of the Arctic Ocean controlled by Canada are the country’s territorial waters and its exclusive economic zone, which ends 200 nautical miles offshore. Everything else is international waters.