Re:Canada and Denmark fight over uninhabited island by leavi...
by mabbo on Monday January 11, 2016 @08:22AM
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It's about the northern passage.
If Denmark owns that island, they have more territorial waters controlling another part of the soon year-round-open-forever passage for ships from Asia to Europe that bypasses the Panama canal. Everyone wants a piece of that.
Re:Canada and Denmark fight over uninhabited island by leavi...
by Arnt on Monday January 11, 2016 @09:34AM
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Nah... the passage goes through the Baffin Bay and then south of Greenland. Hans Island isn't even on the shortest route from Asia to Murmansk, far less any major Europoean ports.
If Denmark owns that island, they have more territorial waters controlling another part of the soon year-round-open-forever passage for ships from Asia to Europe that bypasses the Panama canal. Everyone wants a piece of that.