福克斯新闻 丹麦政府对北极提出正式主权要求

（单词翻译）

Move over Santa Claus-Denmark is laying claim to the North Pole.

距离圣诞节仅几天之际丹麦对北极提出正式主权要求。

A 12-year survey project has concluded that an underwater mountain range-running north of Siberia-is a geological extension of Greenland-the autonomous¹ territory already controlled by the Danes.

历时12年的一项调查已经得出结论, 横跨北极下面的一座水下山脉是丹麦境内自治领土格陵兰岛大陆架的延伸。

As a result, they say 556,000 square miles of the North Pole belongs to them-an area about 20-times the size of Denmark.

因此丹麦方面表示556000平方英里的北极当属丹麦，是丹麦本身的领土的20倍之多。

Five nations now lay claim to that territory, but Denmark is now the first country to declare outright² ownership of the North Pole.

五个国家国现在都在编制各自的北极计划,但丹麦是宣布彻底北极所有权的第一个国家。