Danish military history and weapons

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"Chakoten The Danish Military Historical Society", both in danish and english.

Lots of old pictures of danish troops with locally produced weapons, including Krag's, Remmington rollers and Madsen's.
 
What the danish never understood about the soveriegnity problems around Hans Island, is that if militarily provoked, Canada will use force to to assert it's control of Hans Island.

Clearly, sending armed danish soldiers to a canadian claimed Hans Island, is a clear provocation of canadian soveriegnity in the Arctic.

However, it also my undertanding that at least some of these danish soldiers, if not all, acted on their own, by landing and planting the danish flag on Hands Island, and no danish soldiers are presently, by the orders of the danish prime minister, allowed to set foot on the disputed Hans Island.

Also in the past, drug and alchohol problems have been rampant among danish soldiers in Greenland.
 
Also, both the canadian and danish government have yet another problom the have to deal with about Hans Island, also called Tartupaluk by the local Inuits.

A canadian biology student, by the name of Cavan van Ulft, have last year declared Hans Island his own and private and suvereign principality, and only bad weather prevented him from landing on Hans Island last year.

Good luck Prince Cavan :)
 
Canada's response would likely be pretty much the same as a few years back during Cold War days when the big Tupolevs regularly overflew the north....fly close, wave to them....I seem to recall USSR's response to overflights on their territory, too.
 
Hasn't Canada just announced that the most recent information indicates that the Canada/Greenland line passes through Hans Island? Therefore there would be shared sovereignty. No doubt a CBSA post will have to be established, to regulate cross border shopping.
 
I would prefer if Prince Cavan took over Hans Island and established a Las Vegas style casino on the island. Rich and lonely guys from U.S. Air Base Thule as well as canadian personel from Alert, could drop in on that new principality for a good time. If oil or other minerals are found in that area, this principality on Hans Island could then become one of the richest nations on earth :)
 
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Also in the past, drug and alchohol problems have been rampant among danish soldiers in Greenland.
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Where are you gettign this information!?!?!

The only Danish soldiers in Greenland would be the "jaegersoldater" which are the elite units of the Danish army, who patrol the very north on sleds. Mostly for fun.

otherwise, any other units in Greenland are natives of greenland.
 
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...the local Inuits.

...declared Hans Island his own and private and suvereign principality...
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Who are these "local Inuits" to whom you refer?

"Private and suvereign principality". Won't work. Its been tried. A couple of guys declared their little patch of land to be the "private and suvereign" principality of Arctica, so that they could run an unlicenced bar. Didn't work, bootlegging convictions resulted.
 
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Sigismund, the "kamik post" (word of mouth) is what you hear when traveling around in Greenland. The danish navy has a base in Groennedal, Greenland, and a number of small icebreaking patrol boats on the westcoast of Greenland, which at this point is far superior to anything the canadian navy can put up in the arctic :(

Also, the danish air force has a base at the former US Airbase, Sondre Strom, and five danish soldiers man Station Nord in Northeastern Greenland, as well as there is the danish military "Serius" dog sled patrol of eastern Greenland, which patrol the area in which the Norwegian government annexed in 1931-33, under then norwegian defence minister Vidkun Quesling. Many hundred norwegian seal hunters settled this harsh area, before the world court ordered Vidkun Quesling's annexation of Eastern Greenland illegal. Many norwegians are still hurt by this World Court ruling.

Vidkun Quesling was, after WW2, shot for collaborating with the nazis.

tiriaq, the nearest living Inuit's to Hans Island, are the Inuit's of Northeastern Greenland.

Still, good luck to Prince Cavan of Hans Island :)
 
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...The danish navy has a base in Groennedal, Greenland, and a number of small icebreaking patrol boats on the westcoast of Greenland, which at this point is far superior to anything the canadian navy can put up in the arctic :(

But, but....we've got Native Canadians with snow-mobiles and Lee-Enfields up there; we ought to be invincible! ;)

Still, good luck to Prince Cavan of Hans Island :)

Darn tootin' - see my comment above!;)
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...tiriaq, the nearest living Inuit's to Hans Island, are the Inuit's of Northeastern Greenland...
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Northeastern Greenland is the side facing Iceland.
Canada is bascially west of Greenland.
If the people living closest to Hans Island are Greenlanders that doesn't help any Canadian claim.
Probably the closest Canadians are the folks in Grise Fiord, and that is a fair distance away. Those folks were relocated from Quebec, and have no ancestral connection to the high Arctic.
 
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Thanks for correcting me tiriaq, I did mean that the closest Inuits living to Hans Island live in Northwestern Greenland.

Navy Gunner, the picture of "M 74" patrol boat is a swedish navy ship, and therefore not a danish patrol boat, and a danger to canadian soveriegnity in the arctic. Also I am unable to see the nationality of some of the other navy ship.

Also as an interessting food note to the norwegian governments annexation of Eastern Greenland 1931-33, was that the then norwegian governor (called sysselmand in norwegian) was none other than Helge Ingstad, who in 1961 found the only known Viking settlement in Canada, at L'Anse aux Meadows, northern Newfoundland :)
 
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Thanks for correcting me tiriaq, I did mean that the closest Inuits living to Hans Island live in Northwestern Greenland.

Navy Gunner, the picture of "M 74" patrol boat is a swedish navy ship, and therefore not a danish patrol boat, and a danger to canadian soveriegnity in the arctic. Also I am unable to see the nationality of some of the other navy ship.

Also as an interessting food note to the norwegian governments annexation of Eastern Greenland 1931-33, was that the then norwegian governor (called sysselmand in norwegian) was none other than Helge Ingstad, who in 1961 found the only known Viking settlement in Canada, at L'Anse aux Meadows, northern Newfoundland :)
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Yes I know, they were on the exercise with us. The pictures were taken on the Danish base. Incidentily the soldiers on the base were armed with C7's.

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Navy Gunner, I am puzzled by the last picture, is it some kind of a hoovercraft, and what nationality ?

Also, the norwegian government is going to honor Helge Ingstad by naming a new norwegian navy ship after him.
 
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