from the Sunday Telegraph 17 October 2004:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...17/wpole17.xml
Denmark causes international chill by claiming North Pole
By Julian Coman
(Filed: 17/10/2004)
Denmark has launched an extraordinary bid for ownership of the North Pole, one of the world's last untapped sources of oil
and natural gas
Canada first claimed the North Pole in the late 1950s and an international tribunal later ruled that if no disputing claim
was made within 100 years it would become
Canadian territory. But while most atlases place the region within
Canadian borders, legal sovereignty has never been granted.
In
Canada, the prospect of a Viking takeover of the far north has been greeted with dismay. Last week, one reader of the
Edmonton Journal wrote: "Let's fight the Danes for it. I propose we hold an ice hockey game at the site of the dispute -
the North Pole. The winners get to stay. The losers have to leave
In Resolute Bay, a tiny Inuit community on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, there is bemusement at the notion of the region
answering to Copenhagen. Angela Idlout, a receptionist at the Qausuittug Inn, the settlement's only hotel, told The Sunday
Telegraph: "If you ask me what I feel my nationality is, I will tell you that I feel
Canadian, not Danish
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