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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

That’s how to solve an international row: Canada and Denmark agree to split disputed Arctic island

AP Photo/POLFOTO, Vedderen

Canada and Denmark have agreed to divide a tiny, barren and uninhabited Arctic island between them, ending a decades-long friendly friction dubbed the “whisky war”.

Under the joint agreement, a border will be drawn across Hans Island in the waterway between the northwestern coast of the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island.

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