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28th November 07, 12:25 PM
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I figure that since the closets official province to the North Pole is the Northwest Territories that Santa would wear his district tarta
http://www.nwtpipeband.ca/nwt_tartan.html
 Originally Posted by Coemgen
You're both wrong; the North Pole is in Alaska.
According to Wiki, no one owns the North Pole (yes I said THE North Pole, not North Pole, Alaska )
Under international law, no country currently owns the North Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it. The five surrounding Arctic states, Russia, the United States, Canada, Norway and Denmark (via Greenland), are limited to a 320 kilometre (200-mile) economic zone around their coasts, and the area beyond that is administered by the International Seabed Authority.
Notice they don't mention Finland Todd? I think this is just anothe rinternal Finnish myth, like that their hockey players are better than ours
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