The countries said the deal to settle their 50-year dispute over Hans Island, an uninhabited outcropping in the Arctic, shows how conflicting claims can be resolved peacefully.
Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod and Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly trade gifts on June 14 in Ottawa after signing an agreement to establish a land border between the two countries on Hans Island. TORONTO — It’s a barren and inhospitable rock plopped in a frigid channel in the Arctic. One geologist who visited characterized it as “not a very exciting island.
The dispute dates back to 1973, when Canadian and Danish diplomats were drawing up a maritime boundary in the Arctic. The line cut straight through Hans Island. The diplomats left the question of what to do about it unresolved. The people of this remote Canadian island village are taking government money to clear out. One couple is staying.
“We would like to maintain what was the modus vivendi,” Poul Erik Dam Kristensen, then the Danish ambassador to Canada, told the Globe and Mail “that if one of the parties visited the island, the party notifies the other party beforehand.”In 2009, Danish Rear Adm. Nils Wang told a Canadian parliamentary defense committee that the last he had heard on the issue was that “we agree on disagreeing.”
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