Canada and Denmark end decades-long dispute over barren rock in Arctic

Hans Island whisky war' - described by some as a pseudo-confrontation' - ends after formal division agreed

It has been described by some as a pseudo-confrontation", by others as a diplomatic afterthought. Now, however, the so-called whisky war", which was never really a conflict at all, has finally been resolved with the formal division of a tiny barren Arctic island between Canada and Denmark.

Sitting in the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait between the north-western coast of the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere Island, the uninhabited half-mile-square Hans Island has no mineral resources nor much else of interest unless you are a visiting sea bird.