would not have guessed that svalbard is closer to canada than chukotka
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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You can see this is an older map since Greenland is now at 0km thanks to the conclusion of the Whiskey War splitting up Hans Island down to the middle.
I was just about to comment on that.
I love how you're commenting from a danish instance 🇩🇰
We were both watching this conflict closely!
I'm planning to invade part of Nunavut from the North so you're about to have a border with Scotland.
Giving you Canadians half the island is about as big of a farce as back when a certain politician gave all of our oil to Norway 😅
Which makes France the 3rd closest. Something I never would have believed.
The what now?
Canada and Denmark had a very long territorial dispute (1973-2022) over Hans Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island
It was obviously a friendly dispute, but they did lower the other countries flag and raise their own, which could be considered a war declaration. They both left liquor every time they went to Hans Island to raise their flags. (Canada left whiskey, Denmark left snaps)
It has its own wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
That sounds like a fun kind of war. What a useless looking island though!
The uselessness was probably why neither country actually cared and just had fun, turning the uselessness into a useful fun thing to tie their servicemen in the far north together!
It is about natural resources 😉
Naturally fermented resources.