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  1. Sea route from the N Atlantic, around Asia,
  2. to the N Pacific, pioneered by Nordenskjold
  3. 1878-79 and developed by the USSR in settling
  4. N Siberia from 1935. The USSR owns offshore
  5. islands and claims it as an internal
  6. waterway; the USA claims that it is
  7. international.
  8.