2025-01-09 21:38 UTC
5/ In 2022 came the exciting geographic news of the new Canada 🇨🇦 / Greenland 🇬🇱 land border, when it was agreed to divide remote, uninhabited Hans Island.
This marked the end of the long-running and delightful "Whiskey War" in which the two sides left bottles of alcohol 🍾 for each other while taking down the other side's flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/80.82640/-66.45874
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2025-01-09 21:38
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