The Hans Island question...

[Forsythe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island

What's your opinion?

I'd say danish, but only because i'm danish and it was discovered by a dane... Nothing else than that.

 

[Medicine Bear]

Personally I think Han Solo is much better!!

 

[Forsythe]

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
Personally I think Han Solo is much better!!

Han Solo 4tw!

 

[Martin]

The whole dispute is silly. Its a fscking rock in the middle of nowhere.

Just split it in half and be done with it.

 

[Forsythe]

Originally posted by: Martin
The whole dispute is silly. Its a fscking rock in the middle of nowhere.

Just split it in half and be done with it.

It's mainly about the surrounding areas and what resources it might contain.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Martin
The whole dispute is silly. Its a fscking rock in the middle of nowhere.

Just split it in half and be done with it.

I agree, the whole dispute is pretty ridiculous

 

[EyeMNathan]

The UN should commence peacekeeping operations there, by blasting the island back below sea level.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: Forsythe

Originally posted by: Martin
The whole dispute is silly. Its a fscking rock in the middle of nowhere.

Just split it in half and be done with it.

It's mainly about the surrounding areas and what resources it might contain.

the rest of the border (and one would assume, all the commercial rights on each side of it) is set (according to that map in Wiki), just Hans island. And a small rock cannot possibly contain so much resources that it would justify all this sillyness

 

[Horus]

It's ours, mutha. Back off or we'll send in our crack arctic commandos!

Er....crap...the indians are too busy running casinos right now...

 

[biostud]

Today the Danish Parliament signed the treaty agreed upon last year, ending 50 years of bloody fighting between Denmark and Canuckistan

Whisky Wars: Denmark and Canada strike deal to end 50-year row over Arctic island

The Nato allies have been involved in a good-natured spat over ownership of Hans Island since 1971.

www.bbc.com

 

[IronWing]

How did the U.S. overlook this beautiful, natural platform for a DEW radar installation?

 

[brianmanahan]

Han Solo 4tw!

best dancer in the galaxy imho

 

[manly]

Han's Island was the original name for Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, and he hated it. He refused to show up for shooting until the studio agreed to his movie name, and other script changes.

 

[biostud]

How did the U.S. overlook this beautiful, natural platform for a DEW radar installation?

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They do have a nice Radar system at Thule airbase

 

[IronWing]

They do have a nice Radar system at Thule airbase

In the sitcom I Dream of Jeanie, Air Force personnel who screwed up got sent to Thule.

 

[Pohemi]

50 years of fighting over a little rock. It was 32 years of fighting in the last post before the necro. Nice job pulling this back up instead of making another thread about it. Impressive.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

In the sitcom I Dream of Jeanie, Air Force personnel who screwed up got sent to Thule.

Not too far off, the only ones at Thule either really want to be there or really do not want to be there.

 

[brianmanahan]

the island kind of looks like a butt

 

[sdifox]

Canada should definitely deploy the PEI potatoes gun batteries.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Whomever can farm the land most successfully should be the owner.

 

[IronWing]

Whomever can farm the land most successfully should be the owner.

The Danes planted mines all over the island.



Okay, technically, they scattered Legos all over the place, same impact.

 

[brianmanahan]

Whomever can farm the land most successfully should be the owner.

 

[Thump553]

There was a related thread here somewhere discussing the Whisky War-for more info:

Whisky War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[biostud]

the island kind of looks like a butt

I think in Inuit its name means 'Kidney'.

 

[biostud]

50 years of fighting over a little rock. It was 32 years of fighting in the last post before the necro. Nice job pulling this back up instead of making another thread about it. Impressive.

There was a related thread here somewhere discussing the Whisky War-for more info:

Whisky War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And I was looking for that thread, as I started it, but instead chose to necro an even older thread

Canada and Denmark no longer on the brink of war

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6487325 After nearly 50 years of fierce fighting with flags, whiskey and snaps, Denmark and Canada has peacefully come to an agreement that results in the longest maritime border in the world.

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