Comments on: Your land, my land, island http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/your-land-my-land-island.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 02:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: teknocholer http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/your-land-my-land-island.html#comment-1408644 teknocholer Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157141#comment-1408644 I took that from the CBC article that I linked to. It seemed logical to me that, since Denmark is a member, Greenland would be too.  However, I see by Wikipedia, "Greenland retains some ties with the EU via Denmark. However, EU law largely does not apply to Greenland except in the area of trade." So yes, my mistake. But since the dispute over Hans Island is between Canada and Denmark, wouldn't any resulting border be a Canada/Denmark one? I took that from the CBC article that I linked to. It seemed logical to me that, since Denmark is a member, Greenland would be too.  However, I see by Wikipedia, “Greenland retains some ties with the EU via Denmark. However, EU law largely does not apply to Greenland except in the area of trade.”

So yes, my mistake. But since the dispute over Hans Island is between Canada and Denmark, wouldn’t any resulting border be a Canada/Denmark one?

]]> By: 5alo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/your-land-my-land-island.html#comment-1408349 5alo Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157141#comment-1408349 teknocholer, Greenland isn't part of EU. teknocholer, Greenland isn’t part of EU.

]]> By: teknocholer http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/your-land-my-land-island.html#comment-1407958 teknocholer Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157141#comment-1407958 In other tiny-island news, Hans Island, between Ellesmere Island and Greenland, remains in dispute.   http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/04/12/north-hans-island-dispute.html People of good will on both sides hope that the issue will be resolved peacefully. Ideally the island will be divided, giving Canada its long-desired land border with the European Union. In other tiny-island news, Hans Island, between Ellesmere Island and Greenland, remains in dispute.   http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/04/12/north-hans-island-dispute.html

People of good will on both sides hope that the issue will be resolved peacefully. Ideally the island will be divided, giving Canada its long-desired land border with the European Union.

]]> By: Jörg Henne http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/your-land-my-land-island.html#comment-1407946 Jörg Henne Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157141#comment-1407946 Speaking of strange borders I'd say this island isn't a match for the border between Belgium and the Netherlands around Baarle-Nassau: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau Baarle-Nassau is a Belgian exclave within the Netherlands which is itself host to a Dutch exclave within the Belgian exclave. As the borders cut right through houses and properties, they had all kinds of bizarre stuff going on like people moving their house from one country to the other by moving their front door. Or shops with two cash registers - one in each country. Speaking of strange borders I’d say this island isn’t a match for the border between Belgium and the Netherlands around Baarle-Nassau: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau
Baarle-Nassau is a Belgian exclave within the Netherlands which is itself host to a Dutch exclave within the Belgian exclave. As the borders cut right through houses and properties, they had all kinds of bizarre stuff going on like people moving their house from one country to the other by moving their front door. Or shops with two cash registers – one in each country.

]]> By: RadioSilence http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/your-land-my-land-island.html#comment-1407702 RadioSilence Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157141#comment-1407702 I'd say it was more like a Z than a 2. I’d say it was more like a Z than a 2.

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