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Russia made a new bid Tuesday for a huge swath of Arctic territory — including the North Pole — putting Canada in the position of potentially having to negotiate with the country to settle overlapping claims.

Canada, Russia, the U.S., Denmark and Norway have all been trying to assert jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic, which is believed to hold up to a quarter of the planet’s undiscovered oil and gas. Rivalry for Arctic resources has intensified as shrinking polar ice is opening new opportunities for exploration.

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On Tuesday, Russia’s foreign ministry said it had submitted a revised bid to the United Nations for 1.2 million square kilometres of Arctic sea shelf.

Russia was the first to submit its claim in 2002, but the UN sent it back for lack of evidence.

The Russian ministry said the resubmitted bid contains new arguments. “Ample scientific data collected in years of Arctic research are used to back the Russian claim,” it said.