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Letter: Sakhalin Island is not quite Arctic

Published 28 October 2015

From Eric Kvaalen

You quote a spokeswoman for Shell saying: “We already have an operation with the Russian firm, Gazprom, to explore in the Russian Arctic around Sakhalin Island” (3 October, p 7). Sakhalin goes only as far north as 54°N or so, not even close to the 66°N used to define the Arctic circle.
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Issue no. 3045 published 31 October 2015

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