A longtime mining geologist has filed and been granted a mineral exploration claim under Canadian law to Hans Island.
The crew of Danish warship Vedderen perform a flag raising ceremony on the uninhabitated Hans Island off northwestern Greenland, in this Aug. 13, 2002 file photo. A longtime mining geologist and developer has come up with his own solution to Canada's long-running Arctic sovereignty dispute with Denmark.
Hans Island, an uninhabited 1.3-square-kilometre knuckle of rock in the middle of the Kennedy Channel, has been the focus of a half-jocular, half-serious boundary quarrel between Canada and Denmark that began in 1973. Soon after, the Danish minister of Greenlandic affairs invaded. He left the Danish flag, a bottle of schnapps and a note that said: "Welcome to the Danish island." Diplomats are silent on the fate of the whisky.
It's not Robins's first attempt to beat back the Danes. In 2006, he filed a similar claim, which has since expired. "We rely on maps that are decades old," Robins said. "Often, they're based on people flying over an area and looking out the window and saying, 'Yeah, it looks like this rock type."'
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