Posted on 06/17/2022 12:12:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A territorial dispute between Denmark and Canada over a barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic that has led to decades of friendly friction has come to an end, with the two countries agreeing to divide the tiny island between them.
Under Tuesday's agreement, a border will be drawn across the half-square-mile Hans Island in the waterway between the northwestern coast of the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere Island. The rock has no known mineral reserves of value.
“It sends a clear signal that it is possible to resolve border disputes ... in a pragmatic and peaceful way, where all the parties become winners,” said Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod. He said it was “an important signal now that there is much war and unrest in the world.”
Canada and Denmark agreed in 1973 to create a border through the Nares Strait, halfway between Greenland and Canada. But they were unable to agree which country would have sovereignty over Hans Island, which lies about 680 miles south of the North Pole. In the end, they decided to work out the question of ownership later.
In the following years, the territorial dispute — nicknamed the “whiskey war” by media — raised its head multiple times.
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Right in the middle of that is Galt’s Gulch, I believe.
Put a helipad and a small hotel there, and you might have an interesting getaway destination for the adventurous.
On second thought, the place looks rather boring. Once you’ve seen one ice floe, you’ve seen them all. Better add a bocce court and a bingo parlor to the list.
Canada is lucky they aren’t ruled by Vikings 🤪
Seed the island with penguins. Everyone loves penguins. And as a bonus it won’t have ten million years of penguin poop built up like Antarctica.
The Vikings might be better than that dork they have now
“Right in the middle of that is Galt’s Gulch, I believe.”
No, there’s a hole at the North Pole. At the South Pole it’s just NAZIs.
As a surveyor, it pains me to think some poor bastard has to go survey that nothing piece of rock in the freezing cold, set points, observe them on GPS for such and such time, etc. That’s a major $hit detail. Not like you can drive to the nearest gas station for lunch so they’re gonna need some kind of supply chain. That’s gonna SUCK for whoever draws the short straw on that one
Maybe. But if the y were they wouldn’t be a nation of socialist slaves, sucking up Castro’s son.
Yes, helipad, hotel, and a McDonalds. Figure out some fishing excursions from that spot. Bet there is good fishing around there.
The US should make another play for Greenland.
Instead of trying to negotiate with Greenland and Denmark officials, offer the 56,000 residents, $1,000,000 each. ($56 billion). Let the citizens take it up with their leaders.
Work out a package allowing a reasonable amount of self rule, and some royalties on natural resources. US takes federal ownership of the undeveloped land and resources.
There is already a Starbucks there, I can see it
What if they don’t take it? How much is it really worth?
56B?
The Lousiana Purchase was only 15 million.
Do you really think Greenland would be worth that much cabbage?
Are they going to put a Canadian and a Greenlandic border guard there?
It's impossible to say what it's worth. It's kind of like Alaska. People thought that was a foolish purchase until the Alaskan gold rush started.
If they don't take it, we walk away. Perhaps we reevaluate and raise the offer some. Perhaps we start with a lower offer and raise that. There is no doubt that even if the residents become willing there will be negotiations with Greenland officials and probably Denmark as well.
One company estimated the true worth of Greenland's natural resources was $1.1 trillion. Don't know how they came up with that. But given that it's covered in ice, they aren't easy resources to access. So you don't want to pay full value for something still in the ground under ice.
Those resources become more valuable if global warming was really a thing. Or as resources become more scarce in the rest of the world.
It would increase our claim and access to artic resources as well.
We already have military bases in Greenland, but full rights would be of some value.
The ability to kid Canada that we have them surrounded on 3 sides is worth something.
The most surprising thing to me was that Greenland is a Danish territory! Maybe I knew that at one time, but....
Finally! Now re-name it Moosylvania!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moosylvania
And now press for the U.S. to invade and make it the 51st state!
That it "took decades" to resolve a border dispute involving a half-mile rock that has no value doesn't send much of a "clear signal" that such matters can be resolved ... peacebly or not!
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