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Monday 11 January 2016

2 countries have been fighting over an uninhabited island by leaving each other bottles of alcohol for over 30 years

Far in the Arctic North lies the barren and desolate Hans Island. 
The uninhabited half-square-mile island, possessing no apparent natural resources, is a bizarre sliver of territory for two countries to fight over. However, since the early 1930s, this nondescript rock has been at the center of an ongoing disagreement between Canada and Denmark.

According to World Atlas, Hans Island is located in the middle of the 22-mile wide Nares Strait, which separates Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, from Canada. Due to international law, all countries have the right to claim territory within 12 miles of their shore.
As such, Hans Island is technically located in both Danish and Canadian waters. World Atlas notes that the island was decided to be Danish territory by the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations in 1933.

However, as the League of Nations fell apart in the 1930s and was then replaced by the United Nations, the ruling on the status of Hans Island carries little to no weight.

The issue of Hans Island then loss traction in popular consciousness and the concerns of the Canadian and Danish governments throughout World War II and the heights of the Cold War, only to reemerge in 1984.
On that year, Denmark's minister of Greenland affairs visited the island and planted a Danish flag. At the base of the flag, he left a note saying, "Welcome to the Danish island," along with a bottle of brandy, CBC reports.
And since then, the two countries have waged a not-quite-serious "whiskey war" over Hans Island.
Although the two countries have continued to disagree over the territorial status of the island, the governments have managed to continue the "whiskey war" and keep a good sense of humor over the incident.
Peter Takso Jensen, the Danish Ambassador to the US, has said that "when Danish military go there, they leave a bottle of schnapps. And when [Canadian] military forces come there, they leave a bottle of Canadian Club and a sign saying, 'Welcome to Canada.'"

Currently, a plan is in the works that could turn Hans Island into a shared territory that would be jointly managed by the Canadian and Danish municipalities bordering it.

64 comments:

Unknown said...

Lol... Make them settle am oo

Bonita Bislam said...

Lmao! Next time leave a bottle of alomo & see how fast the other country would surrender & leave the island

Babylawyer. said...

Better shared than violence springs up.


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Unknown said...

God go help them resolve the issue. Linda take note!

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Hmmmmm











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Unknown said...

they should keep on dem go tire

Unknown said...

These two countries are just jobless.

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Na God get land n sea abeg


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Unknown said...

Nice one. They don't have to kill and fight like Nigerian and Cameroon.













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Cherry girl said...

seen

Unknown said...

Peaceful war

Unknown said...

hmmmmm and in all there's no discovered natural resources or so. make dey take am easy sha


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Eddy Ogbunambala said...

Lol '' whiskey war ''

Unknown said...

Their own cup of tea




My view not urs!!!!

Unknown said...

Land war all is well

YOUNG BUHARI said...

Who Hans island din help?

Anonymous said...

The two countries have been battling this and no blood have been shed, no war has broken out. But if it's bia*fraud** now, they will say they want to tunr Nigeria into Somalia... Ewu! Mumu people. Common sense obviously isn't common to these bia*fakes***

Unknown said...

Okay! Next.

Unknown said...

They should turn it to shared territory..... Let's go Linda

Unknown said...

Lol. They should bring some lemme sell for them
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Unknown said...

Lol, Funny...

linda Last Born(IPHY) said...

OK good 4 dem...

Unknown said...

Nothing spectacle.
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Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

Una get time

Unknown said...

Problems of the world.

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Anonymous said...

Funny


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Anonymous said...

Funny


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don snipes said...

It obvious

Donjazzycrush said...

ok.






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Anieto said...

let the two countries manage it bilaterally.

Linda take note

Anonymous said...

They should sell it to me. Don't even know what i'l use It for.

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Olatee said...

dem wahala...next pls
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Unknown said...

Dats it.. sharing is the solution....

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CHYGURL from CHYNA said...

Negodu dry island, oya Nigerians it's another good spot for ur destination weddings.

Unknown said...

Lol...bottles of alcohol huh???

Unknown said...

i wonder if diaz mony there


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No man island. #IRepLIB

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MUFASA said...

Good For Them, As Them Don Shayo Plenty Na Foolishness Remain For Pocket

QUI OO. said...

OK HEARD.

Unknown said...

Kinda da funny.

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Sisi De'nim said...

Somewhere in the world a young man cannot take his betrothed cos he's got no drinks to take to his inlaw. #amofftotellafriend

Edosa said...

Civilized people

Unknown said...

Ok na...

Unknown said...

Ok

Unknown said...

*na them sabi#
#sips oriJin#

Sena Job said...

Make den share am into two naw

Pesin Pikin said...

Na wa o!

Unknown said...

Na kai-kai war be that.....

Unknown said...

their business.....










#Al sah-him

Unknown said...

Ogogoro war ok oo. Let dem share it

Unknown said...

There is a reason for this.

Unknown said...

Mtcheeew..Oyinbo people sha

Unknown said...

Lol dis na shayo Island



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Unknown said...

THEY SHU KUKU GIVE IT TO ME TO END THE FEUD*WINK
Sisi linda howfar,hope u drop key for me?

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Unknown said...

THEY SHU KUKU GIVE IT TO ME TO END THE FEUD*WINK
Sisi linda howfar,hope u drop key for me?

*LINDA'S ROOMMATE

Unknown said...

THEY SHU KUKU GIVE IT TO ME TO END THE FEUD*WINK
Sisi linda howfar,hope u drop key for me?

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Unknown said...

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paparazi said...

okay naa. make dem continue

oh-G said...

And so?

Unknown said...

THEY R NOT SERIOUS.

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