Abstract
According to a theory advanced by Captain Bernier in 1906; as formulated by Senator Poirier in the Canadian Parliament in 1907:1
In future partition of northern lands, a country whose possession today goes up to the Arctic regions, will have a right, or should have a right, or has a right to all the lands that are to be found in the waters between a line extending from its eastern extremity north, and another line extending from the western extremity north. All the lands between the two lines up to the north pole should belong and do belong to the country whose territory abuts up there.
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Auburn, F.M. (1972). The Sector Theory and Polar Sovereignty. In: The Ross Dependency. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9540-9_4
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