2025-01-09 21:38 UTC
6/ While the dispute over Hans Island was not so serious, the Arctic is
increasingly becoming an area of strategic importance.
Climate change means melting ice which means the Northwest Passage, the sea route between Atlantic and Pacific, is now occasionally passable.
Greenland 🇬🇱 will sit on a key trade route.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage#International_waters_dispute
Canada 🇨🇦 claims these to be internal waters, while most other countries say it is an international strait.
#geoweirdness
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2025-01-09 21:38
7/ Denmark 🇩🇰 is a founding member of NATO, and Greenland 🇬🇱 played a key role in the cold war, as part of the GIUK Gap (Greenland, Iceland 🇮🇸, United Kingdom 🇬🇧) a naval choke point, critical for the containment of the Soviet Union's naval forces during the cold war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap #geoweirdness