- Canada and Denmark have resolved a 50-year-old boundary dispute over sovereignty of an Arctic island.
- The island, Hans Island, is located in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada.
- The new agreement also modernises the 1973 maritime boundary within 200 nautical miles.
OTTAWA: Canada and Denmark reached an agreement on Tuesday to create a land boundary to resolve long-standing boundary disputes over the sovereignty of an Arctic island.
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The island, called in Greenlandic as Tartupaluk and in English as Hans Island, is located in the Kennedy Channel in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada, according to the release, and is around 1.2 square kilometres in size, deserted, and devoid of flora or fauna.
As per GAC, the island has a traditional, symbolic, and historic significance to the local inhabitants, and the two parties have debated the island’s sovereignty for more than 50 years.
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