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Has anyone picked up the story from the Canadian media over the past year about the possibility of Soviet submarines secretly prowling around the Canadian Arctic during the Cold War?

Information from Soviet Cold War nautical maps point to considerable Soviet underwater knowledge of the Canadian Arctic. Soviet maps dating from the 1970's are highly detailed and more accurate than modern Canadian or known American maps, and possess knowledge of crucial internal waterways such as the Northwest Passage. Other maps mark details of choke point on Nares Strait off Cape Isabella between Ellesmere Island and Greenland which pass the U.S. air base at Thule in Greenland, and links the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and avoids the waters east of Greenland that were heavily patrolled by NATO during the Cold War. This doesnt include Soviet or Russian maps not available to general public.