For decades, Canada and Denmark argued over Hans Island, a bare rock in the Arctic between Canada and Greenland. In 1984 Canadian soldiers planted a flag and left a bottle of Canadian whisky. Denmark answered with its own flag, a bottle of schnapps and a note: "Welcome to the Danish island." In 2022 they split the island in half, which gave Canada its second land border.
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