<P> Upon ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a country has 10 years to make claims to an extended continental shelf beyond its 200 - mile exclusive economic zone . If validated, such a claim gives the claimant state rights to what may be on or beneath the sea bottom within the claimed zone . Norway (ratified the convention in 1996), Russia (ratified in 1997), Canada (ratified in 2003) and Denmark (ratified in 2004) have all launched projects to base claims that certain areas of Arctic continental shelves should be subject to their sole sovereign exploitation . </P> <P> In 1907 Canada invoked a "sector principle" to claim sovereignty over a sector stretching from its coasts to the North Pole . This claim has not been relinquished, but was not consistently pressed until 2013 . </P> <P> In some children's Western cultures, the geographic North Pole is described as the location of Santa Claus' workshop and residence, although the depictions have been inconsistent between the geographic and magnetic North Pole . Canada Post has assigned postal code H0H 0H0 to the North Pole (referring to Santa's traditional exclamation of "Ho ho ho!"). </P> <P> This association reflects an age - old esoteric mythology of Hyperborea that posits the North Pole, the otherworldly world - axis, as the abode of God and superhuman beings . The popular figure of the pole - dwelling Santa Claus thus functions as an archetype of spiritual purity and transcendence . </P>

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