The new British empire? UK plans to annex south Atlantic

October 10th, 2007 § 0 comments

Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor around the Falklands, Ascension Island and Rockall, a region in which seismic tests suggest there could be about 60bn barrels of oil under the ocean floor.

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