Hans Island

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)

by Tim Marshall  · 10 Oct 2016  · 306pp  · 79,537 words

both sides as being under US sovereignty, but the Russians reserve the right to return to this issue. Other disputes include the one between Canada and Denmark over Hans Island, located in the Nares Strait, which separates Greenland from Ellesmere Island. Greenland, with its population of fifty-six thousand people, has self-government but

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Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming

by Mckenzie Funk  · 22 Jan 2014  · 337pp  · 101,281 words

land is ours”) in 2006 and the previous year’s Exercise Frozen Beaver, when Canadian troops helicoptered to Hans Island—a bean-shaped, half-square-mile rock near Greenland claimed by both Denmark and Canada—and planted a supposedly windproof steel flag and flagpole that the wind toppled almost immediately. But Lancaster was the

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’s ours,” he told me. “It’s fucking ours.” Then he shared his solution for the territorial dispute over Hans Island. “We should just nuke Denmark,” he said. He was kidding, of course. Canada has no nuclear weapons. His real solution was more typically Canadian, and it revealed him as a believer in the

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singing music for us. After the music stopped, I walked down the hall and found Sergeant Strong once again promoting his plan for the Hans Island dispute with Denmark. “It could be something as simple as putting a couple of guys up there with a trailer,” he told a reporter from one of

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who was Portuguese but lived near Canada in upstate New York, joined us. The conversation turned to sovereignty. “The Americans are essentially greedy,” the friend said. “If there’s oil up here, they’ll be here. That’s what all these wars are about.” She mentioned Hans Island, and Sergeant Strong lit up

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. “I think the simple solution for Hans Island is to just put someone there,” he said. “You’ve just got to keep people there year-round.” The

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to gathering seismic data: men pushing a golf-cart-size mesh sack of dynamite into an ice opening. Canada signed the Law of the Sea in 2003, Denmark in 2004. Despite remaining tensions over Hans Island, the two countries have worked together to try to prove that the Lomonosov Ridge, the eleven-hundred-mile

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dubbed “Hopenhagen” until the talks let everyone down—seemed oddly idealistic. Easy marks. I had to wonder at their motives. Did they plan to keep Hans Island? Did they plan to keep the Arctic Ocean seabed claimed under the Law of the Sea? But Minik didn’t wonder, and he didn’t

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in the future, perhaps, by “a population nucleus, a legal anchor, a caretaker population” on certain islands. This was like Sergeant Strong’s plan for Hans Island, expanded. The third threshold—a government—was easy to imagine: like that of Tibet in Dharamsala, India, a government in exile. The last threshold, independence

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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

by Johan Norberg  · 31 Aug 2016  · 262pp  · 66,800 words

between liberal democracies as well, of course, but the difference is how they are resolved. Hans Island, a small, uninhabited island in the Kennedy Channel between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and northern Greenland, is claimed by both Canada and Denmark. The countries’ militaries do visit the island once in a while. When the Danish military

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The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future

by Laurence C. Smith  · 22 Sep 2010  · 421pp  · 120,332 words

Tiny Rockall—literally a barren rock peeking out of the North Atlantic—has been claimed by the United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, and Denmark. Denmark is also tussling with Canada over Hans Island, another speck sitting between the two countries in the Nares Strait off Greenland. The convoluted coastlines of Russia and Alaska open a doughnut

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The End of Growth

by Jeff Rubin  · 2 Sep 2013  · 262pp  · 83,548 words

a desolate chunk of rock near the North Pole. A few years ago, this frozen bottle of Canadian Club became the cocktail of choice on Hans Island, replacing a high-end bottle of Danish schnapps that had been there since 2004. The island is nestled in a remote strait between Greenland and