 On 14 December 2014 Denmark claimed an area of 895,000 km2 extending from Greenland past the North Pole to the limits of the Russian Exclusive Economic Zone.Unlike the Russian claim which is generally limited to the Russia sector of the Arctic, the Danish Claim extends across the North Pole and into Russia's sector.Norway ratified the UNCLOS on 24 June 1996 and had through 2006 to file a claim to an extended continental shelf.