# Canada and Denmark may have settled a long-running border dispute **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083 "2022-06-12T21:14:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/1 "2022-06-12T21:14:10Z")
Hans Island between Canada and Greenland: > **[Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island, sources say...](https://apple.news/AvW36W_h4ThauuinKgUII9w)** > > Under the agreement, a border will be drawn across Hans Island, dividing it between the Canadian territory of Nunavut and the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/2 "2022-06-12T21:18:50Z")
_In 2004, the Wall Street Journal quoted Peter Taksoe-Jensen, legal adviser to the Danish foreign minister about how both countries maintained a sense of humour throughout the dispute: “When Danish military go there, they leave a bottle of schnapps. And when [Canadian] military forces come there, they leave a bottle of Canadian Club [whisky] and a sign saying, ‘Welcome to Canada.’ ”_ I can see the argument now: “It’s okay, you can have it.” “No, that’s alright, you can.” “No, no, you take it” “Please, have a drink on us”… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/3 "2022-06-12T21:53:13Z")
I heard about this. I cannot speak for you but I will sleep a little more soundly. But surely the best Canadian drink to leave was ice wine? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/4 "2022-06-13T00:50:32Z")
Caesars!! Nothing but a pitcher of Caesars, a brace of glasses, and a bottle of Montreal Steak Seasoning shall suffice!!! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/5 "2022-06-13T01:53:56Z")
I think Clamato is against the Geneva Convention. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/6 "2022-06-13T16:39:08Z")
@Spiny_Norman noted elsewhere, ‘Making Canada the only North American country with a land border to the EU.’ ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/7 "2022-06-13T16:48:42Z")
No, Greenland isn’t a member of the EU. They voted to stay out when Denmark joined. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/8 "2022-06-13T17:21:17Z")
I had a feeling that that might be so. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/9 "2022-06-13T17:24:26Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > they leave a bottle of Canadian Club Wait, we were leaving _Canadian Club?_ Now I understand why Denmark was being so feisty about this. We could have at least left Crown Royal! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/10 "2022-06-13T19:11:34Z")
Didn’t someone once hide dozens of bottles of Canadian Club in obscure places around the world for adventurers to find as part of some ancient advertising campaign? You want it, sure, but badly enough to visit the icy coasts? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/11 "2022-06-13T19:40:10Z")
Not all of them have been found. > **[There's a 52-Year-Old Whiskey Treasure Hunt That's Still Going On](https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/02/02/theres-a-51-year-old-whiskey-treasure-hunt-still-going-on/)** > > Our dream treasure hunt? One that involves an international quest for free whiskey and a $10,000 prize, which was precisely the case in the Summer of 1967. In one of cleverest marketing ploys of advertising’s golden age, Canadian Club Whiskey hid 25... ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/12 "2022-06-13T19:44:21Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > No, Greenland isn’t a member of the EU. They voted to stay out when Denmark joined. Goddammit, that’s going to put a crimp in my plans assuming we’d be joining the Schengen Area. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/13 "2022-06-13T19:44:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Caesars!! Nothing but a pitcher of Caesars The idea was to _de_-escalate, not spark a war! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/14 "2022-06-13T20:18:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spiny_norman) noted elsewhere, ‘Making Canada the only North American country with a land border to the EU.’ > [@Mikkel](#): > > No, Greenland isn’t a member of the EU. They voted to stay out when Denmark joined. We do have a maritime boundary with the EU: St Pierre and Miquelon. Green Island, Newfoundland & Labrador is only 6 miles from St Pierre. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/15 "2022-06-13T20:38:02Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > We do have a maritime boundary with the EU: St Pierre and Miquelon. Green Island, Newfoundland & Labrador is only 6 miles from St Pierre. St Pierre & Miquelon have the same status as Greenland as far as the EU goes, so they aren’t part of it either. Incidently, they also share the same time zone as Greenland, which means they’re a half hour ahead of Newfieland, even though they’re actually to the west. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/16 "2022-06-13T21:13:55Z")
I’ve been looking over items about SP-M, and I’m not sure whether it’s part of the EU customs zone. It elects a member to the French parliament, uses the euro, uses French license plates, cellphone frequencies, etc, but beyond that, I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/17 "2022-06-13T21:33:50Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Incidently, they also share the same time zone as Greenland, which means they’re a half hour ahead of Newfieland, even though they’re actually to the west. Of course they’re a half hour ahead of Newfoundland. Everywhere is exactly a half hour ahead of Newfoundland. At least, that’s what the CBC has taught me. “Tonight at 9, 9:30 in Newfoundland.” Newfoundland is a half hour behind whether you’re in Truro, Sudbury, Medicine Hat, or Nanaimo. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/18 "2022-06-13T21:38:37Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I’ve been looking over items about SP-M, and I’m not sure whether it’s part of the EU customs zone. According to this wiki-page, they are not. > **[Special territories of members of the European Economic Area | Overseas countries and territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union#Overseas_countries_and_territories)** > > The overseas countries and territories (OCT) are dependent territories that have a special relationship with one of the member states of the EU. Their status is described in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and they are not part of the EU or the European Single Market. The Overseas Countries and Territories Association was created to improve economic development and cooperation between the OCTs and the EU, and includes most OCTs except three territories which do not have a ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/19 "2022-06-15T01:50:15Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Newfoundland is a half hour behind whether you’re in Truro, Sudbury, Medicine Hat, or Nanaimo. TIL there was a Truro in Canada and not just Cornwall. Why would someone voluntarily name a community after another one that is so hard to pronounce? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083/20 "2022-06-15T02:19:48Z")
If you find the English pronunciation of Truro difficult, just say it in Cornish: _Truru_ (True rue). This is also a pretty common spelling / pronunciation in English, though no longer standard. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-denmark-may-have-settled-a-long-running-border-dispute/966083.md?page=2)