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David Gemeinhardt's avatar

As a Canadian, I've started thinking about what lies under the Arctic ice more and more. At least one ship that is not an icebreaker has made it through the Arctic Ocean from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I don't expect to see it in my lifetime (I'm middle-aged), but major sea lanes across the Arctic Ocean are now imaginable. In other words, the old dream of the Northwest Passage is about to come true. And what commodities might be under the ocean floor? I can only hope that our leaders are making long-term, strategic defence plans for our northern frontier...

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Cathy J's avatar

I thought that the "something incredible" under the pole was going to turn out to be the remants of one of the rogue planets that this edition opened with, deeply embedded in the Earth.

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