( October 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. A mini submarine dropped a titanium capsule containing aВ Russian flag onto the ocean floor beneathВ the North Pole in 2007 in an attempt to stake a claim to the region's oil and minerals.This section needs additional citations for verification. 'Regardless, it is great to see Canada and Denmark taking measures to resolve this boundary dispute.' Russia has planted flags staking claims to the Arctic region. 'The dispute between Canada and Denmark over Tartupaluk or Hans Island has never caused issues for Inuit,' said Kotierk in a media statement. The organization's president, Aluki Kotierk, said 'Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic is only possible because of Inuit use and occupancy.' Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) is the legal representative of the Inuit of Nunavut for the purposes of native treaty rights and treaty negotiation. Greenland'sВ InuitВ have long used Hans Island as a stagingВ point when hunting in the area, according to media reports. 'It's possible this will become a tourist destination.' He said border guards will not be present because it's the symbolism that matters to the two nations. 'There's no significance of the border, except the signal it sends to the world that we can resolve our disputes in a friendly way,' said Byers.Д«yers says the two countries decided to draw a line along a geological feature thatВ can be seen on satellite images.

He said Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine created the 'right moment' for the countries to finally resolve the issue once and for all. Michael Byers, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia, has been calling for a peaceful resolution to the dispute for decades. There wasn't significant movement on the file until 2018, when a multinationalВ task force took up the matter, said Breum. The crew of the Danish warship Vedderen perform a flag raising ceremony on uninhabitated Hans Island in August 2002. That suddenly stopped when both countries decided they needed to work out their differencesВ as allies, said Breum.ДЄt the signing ceremony,В the parties exchanged alcoholic beverages as a reference to the tradition. Military ships visiting the island in the 1980s planted flags andВ bottles of Canadian whiskey or Danish schnapps to stake their claims. The New York Times said that while other international disputes 'can be ugly affairs, waged with all the nastiness of a divorce, backed with the forces of armies,' the disagreement between Canada and Denmark would 'better suit a dinner party than a battlefield: it comes down to B.Y.O.B.' Some international media outlets have nicknamed the dispute the 'whisky war' or the most 'polite' of all territorial conflicts. There's no minerals, there is no oil in the waters next to it.' And then knowing that you are on top of the 50-year-old conflict of international magnitude is really odd because there's nothing there. 'You actually feel history right there,' said Breum. He said the only artifacts there areВ the remnants of CanadianВ and DanishВ flags and placards staking their claims over the years. Both countries are exactly 18 kilometres away from the island, allowing them to claim the rock under international law.Д«reumВ visited the island by helicopter in 2018 and describes it as a 'beautiful,'В desolate piece of history. Hans Island shoots up vertically 180 meters from the icy waters between Canada and Greenland. The dispute over Hans Island dates back to 1973, when Canada and Denmark tried to establish a border through the Nares Strait waterway. 'This is an example of how even the smallest piece of territory can excite governments to a point where even allies disagree for decades,' he said. Martin Breum, a Copenhagen journalist and expertВ on the Arctic, said that while both governments willВ say it's a 'fabulous deal,'В it's taken a 'really long time to resolve a very, very small issue.' 'Today we have turned a chapter in history,' he said. He said he hoped the deal would boost trade and investment between Canada and GreenlandВ andВ encourageВ Greenlanders to visit friends and family in northern Nunavut. 'May thisВ agreement inspire other countries to follow the same path.'Д®gedeВ welcomed the settlement. Diplomacy and the rule-of-law actually work,' he said. Kofod echoed Joly's remarks, saying the deal can serve as an example to the world in difficult times.

Copenhagen journalist and author Martin Breum visits Hans Island in 2018.

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