Dispute
A disagreement over a 200-square-kilometre section of the Lincoln Sea emerged in the early 1970s when the Arctic Council was first delineating the offshore boundary north of Canada's Ellesmere Island and Danish-controlled Greenland.
From Canada's point of view, the point of focus in the Lincoln Sea dispute has been Denmark's inclusion of tiny Beaumont Island (not to be confused with Beaumont Island off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica) off Greenland's northwest coast in calculating the boundary. The boundary is determined in that region by an "equidistance" principle that draws the line halfway between points along each country's coastline. Canada has basically argued that the Beaumont "rock" poking out of the waves is too insignificant to be used by Greenland to help determine the international boundary.
This issue however has remained a low-profile irritant in Canadian-Danish relations.
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