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The Whisky War, also known as the Liquor Wars, [1] was a bloodless war and border dispute between the Kingdom of Denmark and Canada over Hans Island.Between 1973 and 2022, the island was under dispute between the two nations, although never amounting to direct conflict or violence.
Its location in the strait that separates Ellesmere Island of Canada from northern Greenland was for years a border dispute, the so-called Whisky War between the two countries of Canada and Denmark. Hans Island is the smallest of three islands in Kennedy Channel off the Washington Land coast; the others are Franklin Island and Crozier Island.
The decision by Ottawa and Copenhagen to split tiny, uninhabited Hans Island means that the U.S. will no longer be the only country to border Canada. Canada and Denmark end their 49-year-old feud ...
The first treaty between Canada and Denmark was a visa requirements agreement, signed on 22 September and 14 October 1949. [7] Both countries signed an agreement concerning taxes in 1956. [8] Canada and Denmark agreed to cooperate with defence science in 1969. [9] In 1983, a marine environmental, social and economic agreement was signed in ...
Kingdom of Denmark Canada: 1,280 m A constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland had a border dispute with Canada regarding uninhabited Hans Island. The island is located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait (between Canada's Ellesmere Island and northern Greenland), which constitutes the agreed maritime border. On ...
Another mention worthy example of cooperation outside of the Arctic Council is "the Whiskey War" between two allies, Denmark and Canada. 1973 Denmark and Canada signed a treaty delimitating their border in the water between the east coast of Greenland and the western/northern coast of Canada.
A territorial dispute between Denmark and Canada over a barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic that has led to decades of friendly friction has come to an end, with the two countries agreeing ...
Ambassadors of Canada to Denmark (8 P) D. Danish diaspora in Canada (2 C, 1 P) ... Whisky War This page was last edited on 16 January 2019, at 06:54 (UTC). ...