2007年8月,俄罗斯北极科考队出动深水潜水器,在北极点下潜四千多米,将一面俄罗斯三色国旗插在了北冰洋底,以示俄罗斯对此地区拥有主权权利。“一旗激起千层浪”,冰峰耸立、白雪皑皑的千年苦寒之地顿时变得热闹非凡。美国的破冰船驶往北极进行海底测绘;加拿大在北极举行海空联合 In August 2007, the Russian Arctic expedition team deployed deepwater submersibles, dive more than 4,000 meters at the North Pole point, and inserted a Russian tricolor flag on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean to show that Russia has sovereign rights over this area. “A flag provokes a thousand layers of waves,” and the millennium bitter coldness of the ice peaks and snow-capped mountains has suddenly become very lively. U.S. icebreakers sail to the North Pole for submarine surveying; Canada holds sea and air alliances in the Arctic