Move boosts armed forces capability in polar waters.
Arctic Trefoil military base built recently on Franz Josef Land. Picture: Ministry of Defence
High ranking sources said that Russia has completed the equipping and deployment of six military bases covering a vast swathe of the country's Arctic territory and waters, reported TASS.
The move restores Moscow's capability to levels that were lost after the end of the Soviet era.
The chain of military bases stretches from west to east along the Arctic shore. Picture: The Siberian Times
In the west, the bases are now equipped on Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land, while in the east, they are fully prepared on Wrangel Island and Cape Schmidt, in Chukotka.
Further bases are at Sredny, on Severnaya Zemlya, and Kotelny, in the New Siberian Islands.
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My guess is you have not read THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN by John Muir, because he opened chapter XV with
this statement: "A NOTABLE addition was made to the national domain when Captain Calvin L. Hooper landed on Wrangell Land,[1] and took formal possession of it in the name of the United States."
1 The landing was made August 12, 1881.
The date Secretary Hughes made the statement was on May 13, 1924. The Lomen Brothers on Nome, Alaska owned Wrangell Island from April 1, 1924.
Wrangell Island entered the District of Alaska on May 17, 1884, when Ezra W. Clark made it known that the island
was in Alaska.
In the 1920s the US secretary of state tried to encourage a party to "go and hold it," but that party never made it to Wrangle Island.
If the US government (not just the captain of a cutter) had actually claimed the islands it would still have needed to exercise jurisdiction by establishing a presence, giving international notice of the claim and exercising jurisdiction over activities there. Without those actions, planting a flag alone has about as much effect as a child licking an object and proclaiming "mine."
Wrangel Island no.
two different islands here.
Alaska on May 17, 1884.