You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Far in the Arctic North lies the barren and desolate Hans Island. The uninhabited half-square-mile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unlikely place for a cold war: An aerial view of Hans Island in the High Arctic. Battered by fresh U.S. threats of tariffs and ...

Few sovereignty disputes end with a toast. Ottawa and Copenhagen managed it anyway, turning a fight over an uninhabited Arctic rock into a study in how allies can argue without forgetting why they're ...

A 50-year-long border dispute over an uninhabited Arctic island is drawing to a close as Denmark and Canada agree to end the so-called "Whisky War". Canada and Denmark plan to divide the disputed Hans ...

In both geographical and economic terms, it is difficult to overstate how unimportant Hans Island is. It is, quite literally, a rock surrounded by water. At barely 1.3-square kilometres, the ...

War is hell, except when Canada is involved; then, war is just weird. But polite as Canadians may be, let it never be said that they back down from a fight, as evidenced by the amount of spine they ...