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 ...

Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede (left) along with Denmark’s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod, and Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly at the signing of the Hans Island agreement ...

Both Canada and Denmark claim tiny Hans Island, a rocky outcrop ruled by ice and wind that lies between Greenland and Ellesmere Island. So when the Canadian defence minister, Bill Graham, landed there ...

A dispute over bald, uninhabited piece of rock in the Arctic waters between Greenland and Ellesmere Island that's been a sore point between Canada and Denmark for years may finally be resolved. In a ...

Modern mapping technology has pinpointed a new wrinkle in Canada's dispute with Denmark over tiny Hans Island. After reviewing the latest satellite imagery, federal officials concede the international ...

Arctic experts from Canada and Denmark are proposing a novel solution to who controls an ice-bound speck of an island midway between the two countries. Turn Hans Island into a condominium. "It would ...