Denmark and Canada have struck a deal to settle almost 50 years of good-natured squabbling over the ownership of a small, uninhabited Arctic island.
Since 1971, the countries have been "fighting" the "Whisky Wars" to settle competing claims over Hans Island.
Successive expeditions from Ottawa and Copenhagen have braved icy conditions to plant bottles of alcohol on the tiny 1.2sq km (0.75sq-mile) rock.
But now officials have agreed to divide the outpost roughly in half.
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