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Canada and Denmark divide small Arctic island, ending ownership dispute
Summary by Ground News
Since 1971, the countries have been "fighting" the "Whiskey Wars" to settle competing claims over Hans Island. Successive expeditions from Ottawa and Copenhagen have braved icy conditions to plant bottles of alcohol on the tiny 1.2sq km (0.75sq-mile) rock. Now officials have agreed to divide the outpost roughly in half.