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Archive 1 (August 2005-December 2006)

Contents 1 Cavan van Ulft 2 Coordinates 3 Suspicious Google-earth blurring of Hans Island 4 26 July 07 news report 5 Quest for a new header image

[edit] Cavan van Ulft

The mentioning of this student seems very insignificiant, perhaps it should be removed?

• I am a citizen of the Principality of Tartupaluk, the country set up by HSH Prince Cavan, and I would like to point out that he is not insignifigant. We are a real country with a real culture, and even if Wikipedia does not recognize that, mention of our nation should not be removed.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.59.159.55 (talk • contribs)

Whatever. Students' pranks are not encyclopedic. I've removed the reference. Valentinian ^{T / C} 00:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coordinates

I've added coordinates for the island via the {{coor title dms}}template, and changed the coordinates in the body of the article. Looking at Google Earth, there seem to be at least three locations plotted by the "Google Earth Community" for Hans Island. One is just to the west of the actual island, while the other is a much larger island to the southeast. I confirmed the actual location of Hans Island with the Canada Atlas website, providing the coordinates used in the article. They lined up correctly with the Google Earth imagery. If anyone has a bone to pick, do let me know. -Joshuapaquin 05:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suspicious Google-earth blurring of Hans Island

I believe that this is due to the fact, that the EVIL Canadian military forces, are preparing a ruthles assault on Denmark. OMG! they PAY Google-Earth to hide the truth. It's the end of the world *running around the room, franticly waving my arms in panic*! Honest to god, there is PLENTY of space on either side of the "Kennedy kanal". And IF there are valuable minerals or vitamin C on that god-forsaken windblown barren rock, then so be it. I seriously doubt that the geological properties of Hans Island, are much different than those on either side of strait. So much fuss for so little (1.3km²), I mean come on! I'm a dane, and the resources spent on this "dispute" is just ridicilous, next to the negligable gains. Christ... just let it go, donate it to the seals, birds and/or ninjas! I myself am beginning to believe that this "dispute", only is kept alive to amuse both of our peoples. I know it amuses me, but the joke is getting old. The best news are they agreed to place an unmanned (probably needed due to the climate of hate between our peoples) weather station. I tried to make a joke, I'm sorry you missed it before it got deleted.

Best regards (esp. to our Canadian friends)

A "deeply concerned" Dane Zero2ninE 12:45, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 26 July 07 news report

I disagree with how the news of today (26 July, 07) has been portrayed on the site. Since the Government of Canada has not yet reacted, it cannot be said that Canada has revised its' claim in any way, only that they have recognized new images showing that the international line runs through the island. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/07/26/hans-technology.html This story is also fuller than the one linked on the site. P.S. to immediately reveal any bias, I am a Canadian.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.213.133.12 (talk • contribs).

Well, feel free to modify the section to make it more representative of the article. That's the great thing about Wikipedia, anyone can update it. --StuffOfInterest 20:12, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

It's a fairly contentious issue, so I thought I would give an explanation first :)--Bren95 20:18, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quest for a new header image

Great, some admin apparently just delete the header image, presumably becomes he did not think it was ”fair use” enough, despite that both source and reason was applied (apparently not good enough). So here is the quest, find a new image of Hans Island that is free, - of the actual island, not some google overview/ map image. I know there is an image longer down the article, but that is bound to get the chopped too, since it cannot possible be more “fair use” then the recently chopped one. Twthmoses 10:19, 22 August 2007 (UTC)