Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have as many countries as realistically possible hold land north of the Arctic Circle, preferably with a PoD after Jan. 1, 1900 (though stuff before that would be interesting as well).
Previously, Britain and Nazi Germany had also controlled territory north of Arctic Circle.
To try to fulfill my own challenge, how can we get many more:
I initially though of an independent Quebec, but upon closer inspection of the map, it seems the are too far south to qualify.
What would qualify would be an independent Finmark and Lapland (though with its southern border far enough north so that Finland still retains a foothold north of the Circle). Both could theoretically have been conceived after WW2 under different circumstances.
One other option would be for an epic collapse and balkanisation of the Russian Empire: one state based in St. Petersburg/Petrograd, one in Moscow (but which still somehow stretches sufficiently to the north) and one in Siberia (perhaps a Japanese puppet?), and maybe with Japan itself taking the extreme far-east.
Britain could conceivably make a comeback by somehow getting one of the tiny outlying Norwegian islands, such as Jan Mayen, as part of some alternate World War peace settlement.
Previously, Britain and Nazi Germany had also controlled territory north of Arctic Circle.
To try to fulfill my own challenge, how can we get many more:
I initially though of an independent Quebec, but upon closer inspection of the map, it seems the are too far south to qualify.
What would qualify would be an independent Finmark and Lapland (though with its southern border far enough north so that Finland still retains a foothold north of the Circle). Both could theoretically have been conceived after WW2 under different circumstances.
One other option would be for an epic collapse and balkanisation of the Russian Empire: one state based in St. Petersburg/Petrograd, one in Moscow (but which still somehow stretches sufficiently to the north) and one in Siberia (perhaps a Japanese puppet?), and maybe with Japan itself taking the extreme far-east.
Britain could conceivably make a comeback by somehow getting one of the tiny outlying Norwegian islands, such as Jan Mayen, as part of some alternate World War peace settlement.