evidence: Canada and Denmark look to end their long-running dispute over Hans Island [...] - Canada and Denmark plan to divide the disputed Hans Island into equal halves - The agreement is largely a symbolic act to show unity between the two NATO allies - Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island has no known mineral resources The NATO allies have been engaged in a — mostly good-spirited — squabble over Hans Island, situated at equal distance between Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere Island, since 1971, when their rival claims first came to light at a bilateral meeting to discuss territorial boundaries.