A report by Australian Strategic Policy Institute: Key Findings: Some of China’s interests and activities in the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT), which include undeclared military activities and mineral exploration, may be at odds with Australian strategic interests and potentially breach… Read More »China’s expanding Antarctic interests: Implications for Australia
5 April 2018 It may look easy, but surfacing a nuclear submarine in the Arctic requires careful preparation. Popular Mechanic story: A submarine bursting through the Arctic ice is a powerful image. But it’s not an easy one to pull… Read More »How the Navy Punches a Nuclear Sub Through Arctic Ice
19 April 2018 Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant has broken through the ice of the North Pole with two US submarines to bring Ice Exercise 2018 to an end. A few weeks after punching through the ice off Alaska, the… Read More »Submarine HMS Trenchant breaks through the ice of the North Pole
Arctic Submarine Laboratory at www.csp.navy.mil/asl/ The Navy’s Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) is a Fleet Support Detachment of Commander, Submarine Forces U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC). ASL is the “Center of Excellence” for arctic matters for the U.S. submarine force. ASL… Read More »Arctic Submarine Laboratory
Crystal Two: The Origin of Iqaluit by Robert V. Eno Downloadable article at: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63662 “Iqaluit is unique among Canadian Arctic communities in that it originated not from a commercial venture, such as mining or the fur trade, or as a… Read More »Crystal Two: The Origin of Iqaluit
Camp Fistclench was a prototype for Camp Century “In 1955, Camp Fistclench was constructed 220 miles east of Thule, adjacent to the AC&W site, to test and evaluate methods of ice cap construction and to provide a summer base camp… Read More »Camp Fistclench
CAMP CENTURY EVOLUTION OF CONCEPT AND HISTORY OF DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE Technical Report 174 by Elmer F. Clark OCTOBER 1965, U.S. ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND, COLD REGIONS RESEARCH & ENGINEERING LABORATORY, HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE Available at: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/477706.pdf “This report tells… Read More »Camp Century – Project Iceworm Paper
A number of papers related to Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives are available online at the Calgary Papers in Military and Strategic Studies website at: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cpmss/issue/view/2442 Introduction (to the papers) by Whitney Lackenbauer Abstract: “Climate change is transforming… Read More »Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives
Russian Military Strategies in the Arctic by HEININEN, Lassi, SERGUNIN, Alexander, YAROVOY, Gleb “Russia’s Arctic military strategy is a vexed question both in the media and in the expert community. Since the planting of a titanium Russian flag at the… Read More »Russian Military Strategies in the Arctic
“Operation Muskox was the largest military exercise ever held in the Canadian Arctic and the fourth of four military expeditions held in the region in the 1940s. The previous three, Eskimo, Polar Bear and Lemming, had been on a far… Read More »Operation Muskox – Canadian North – 1946
ARCTIC SUBMARINE LABORATORY – Collections of Photographs https://www.sublant.usff.navy.mil/Press-Room/Photo-Gallery/
MILITARY CAPABILITIES IN THE ARCTIC by Siemon T. Wezeman SIPRI Background Paper – March 2012 “In recent years the forecast of far-reaching climate change in the Arctic has led to fears of future conflict in the region. Such fears have… Read More »Military Capabilities in the Arctic – SIPRI Paper
Geo-Politics in High North “The aim of the GeoPolitics in the High North research programme is to develop new knowledge about actors and their interests in the High North. The programme is led by the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies,… Read More »Geo-Politics in High North
Arctic Mission 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoff Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2011 An account of the US Navy’s work in the Arctic in 1958 telling the story of the USS Nautilus but also flights by… Read More »Arctic Mission
Arctic Airmen – The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia, 1942 by Ernest Schofield & Roy Conyers Nesbit Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2005 First Published by William Kimber in 1987
The Sledge Patrol by David Howarth Collins, London, 1957 The story of wartime dog patrols in the North-East of Greenland during WWII.
Drift Station – Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science by William F. Althhoff Potomac Books, Washington, 2007 “Closed to conventional passage, the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas have nevertheless known European explorers since the sixteenth century. Systematic observation, however, dates only from… Read More »Drift Station
The Arctic Frontier edited by R. St. J. MacDonald University of Toronto Press, 1966 An series of articles concerning the administration of Northern territiories and their peoples and a relatively early reviews of the strategic significance of the Arctic.