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Resource Race Heats Up in Melting Arctic »

Posted by: capn_caveman 2 years, 9 months ago

Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island is very hard to find on a map. Yet these days the Frisbee-shaped rock in the Arctic is much in demand - so much so that Canada and Denmark have both staked their claim to it with flags and warships.

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  • Avg rating: (+1/-0 1)Wil
    Wil
    March 24, 2007, 2:42 p.m.

    Nations staking claim to some barren bit of rock with flags and warships sounds like an old Warner Brothers cartoon.

    • Avg rating: (+3/-0 3)JenMurdock
      JenMurdock
      March 24, 2007, 3:57 p.m.

      Humans, will we EVER learn? Pretty soon we'll all be fighting over the last ice cube.

      • Avg rating: (+1/-0 1)ARRAY
        ARRAY
        March 25, 2007, 12:11 a.m.

        http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-452066547 Great Global Warming Swindle

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