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modern legal issues
An August 2010 news report on the recent discovery of the Investigator mentioned that the Royal Navy ship was never decommissioned. Does that fact have any modern legal ramifications? Also, a commentator mentioned that the ship's presence in its northern location has a significant bearing on Canada's claims to sovereignty over the region. I'd like to learn exactly what he meant. Is another nation (Russia?) claiming the region?