Danish-Canadian deal ends 49-year-old feud over uninhabited Arctic isle

A decades-old dispute between Denmark and Canada over a tiny, barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic has come to an end.

A territorial dispute between Denmark and Canada over a barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic that has led to decades of friendly friction has come to an end, with the two countries agreeing to divide the tiny island between them.

Under the agreement, a border will be drawn across the half-square-mile Hans Island, in the waterway between the north-western coast of the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island.