evidence: On June 14, representatives of Canada, Denmark and Greenland gathered at 50 Sussex Drive, the Ottawa headquarters of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to sign a treaty settling a longstanding territorial dispute over Hans Island, a small uninhabited island in the Nares Strait between Ellesmere Island and northern Greenland. The bloodless conflict became known as the "Whiskey War" because, beginning in the 1980s, Canada and Denmark took turns staking their claim to the island by planting flags and bottles of liquor — whiskey from Canada, schnapps from Denmark. [...] It’s also a symbolic rebuke of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both Joly and Kofod said the peaceful resolution of the Hans Island dispute is proof that diplomacy works and that territorial disputes can be resolved through the rule of law instead of violence. [...] The dispute over Hans Island (Tartupaluk in Inuktitut and Greenlandic) began in 1973 when Canada and Denmark attempted to draw a boundary through the Nares Strait and found both countries could credibly lay claim to the island, which is roughly equidistant to both Canada and Greenland. But the question of Canada’s Arctic sovereignty has an even longer history.