Clinton tours Arctic as nations vie for resources

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere, right, talk together onboard the Arctic Research vessel Helmer Hanssen on a fjord, near the northern Norwegian city of Tromso, Norway,

Talks: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere talk together onboard the Arctic Research vessel Helmer Hanssen on a fjord, near the northern Norwegian city of Tromso.

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 04 June 2012 06:34 GMT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sailed through a sliver of the Arctic Ocean on Saturday, where the world's big powers are vying for vast oil, gas and mineral deposits becoming available as polar ice recedes.

Clinton boarded a research ship in Tromso, a Norwegian town north of the Arctic Circle, to illustrate US interests in a once inaccessible region where resources are up now for grabs and new sea routes between Europe and Asia are opening up, Reuters reported.

"A lot of countries are looking at what will be the potential for exploration and extraction of natural resources as well as new sea lanes," Clinton told reporters after taking a two-hour boat tour of the local fjord.

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