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No offense to you, but that is wrong. A map is not a map, When you are looking from the typical standerd view of a map. It all looks completly different. From a standerd view, Canada, US and Britain are the closest to the artic from what you can see.
Uhh...no, because if you bothered to look around a bit, you would see Russia and Norway up there with everyone else.
And out of curiosity, could you perhaps show me your version/definition of standard view?
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But looking at the map given above, where the view is different and is above the artic. You can clearly see whos closer, ALOT better.
You can see them anyways. Sorry if you can't look at a map correctly.

Making an educated observation of the Arctic of ANY map takes only one minute...

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Anyways, now if you are done Artic_Menance talking about my comments. I'd like to move on to the actual topic conversation.
Right, yes; so this brings us back to square one...
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This is pissing me off, "Danish government sent a frigate to Hans Island to erect a flag and lay down a plaque claiming ownership of the tiny, barren island, which Canada had already claimed"
If we already took claim over this, then why the heck are the Danish planting there flag on it. The arrogance of some country's. There are only three countries that should ONLY be allowed to be in the running for claiming the artic.
1. Canada
2. Great Britain
3. America
All three are the closest to it, Canada expecially.
In case you can't tell, we HAVE been discussing the relevant topic.
