The new border ends one of the most passive aggressive boundary disputes in history
The border in question will be about one kilometre long, and will bisect the Arctic island of Hans Island, a barren uninhabited rock midway between Nunavut and Greenland. One side will be Canadian, and the other side will be under the control of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The island is hundreds of kilometres from the nearest human settlement and there is minimal evidence of it ever having been used by Inuit. However, it will mark the only place in North America in which it will be possible to cross into sovereign European territory with a single step. According to Denmark, their claim to Hans Island was bolstered in 1933 when the now-defunct Permanent Court of International Justice extinguished U.S. claims to the eastern Arctic and gave the Danes full sovereignty over Greenland. Since 1979, Greenland has been governed as a semi-autonomous territory whose relationship to Copenhagen isn’t all that dissimilar from Nunavut’s relationship to Ottawa.
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