Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean as a shortcut between the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Explorers would take ships ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the earth's five oceans. However, not only is it the largest, but it's bigger than all the earth's land mass.

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies ... other Arctic nations and kicked the international rush to map out claims to the seabed into high gear. Last month, the United ...

SCHMITZ: You mentioned the map. You know, I'm looking at a map of the Arctic Ocean right now. You know, it's bordered by Russia, Canada. I see Greenland, Scandinavian countries. One country I am ...