POL340Y5 Lecture 13: POL340-Lec13.docx
5 Apr 2015
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Pol340 lecture 13 (missing lecture 11 and 12) The artic archipelego, for about 50 year period, number of overlapping and contradictory land disputes in arctic archipelago; one disputed area was ellesmere island (largest arctic island), and ownership of a group of island known as sverdrup islands. Other countries showed an interest in claiming these territories for themselves (along with canada) but all disputes in the arctic (with one tiny exception known as hans. Canada put in a claim, america, denmark, and norway. Looked like denmark (colonial power in greenland) would extend its claim not just to eastern side of the waters, but to the western side to ellesmere island. Canada resisted those challenges by undertaking effective control over ellesmere. All these actions went unchallenged by the intl community. Denmark didn"t challenge because it was more interested in controlling greenland. In 1973 the lineation treaty (set the border between canada and denmark .
