guardian.co.uk — Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor around the Falklands, Ascension Island and Rockall, a region in which seismic tests suggest there could be about 60bn barrels of oil under the ocean floor.
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retsam06Oct 6, 2007
So they can legally take land that's not really theirs and belongs to other sovereign nations?That's just wrong.
vaultOct 7, 2007
Land? The British own the Falklands, why shouldn't they get a piece of the Ocean surrounding it?
squeakymouseOct 7, 2007
They're british islands inhabited by british citizens who are happy being british. It's been british for 174 years. The only controversial part about this is how much of the surrounding ocean the UK can claim.