Attempt to prove north pole is Danish

[kskiska]

Denmark hopes to find evidence that the Danish territory of Greenland is connected to a ridge beneath the floating ice of the Arctic Ocean, thus giving Denmark claim to the north pole - and whatever riches in oil and gas may lie beneath it.

"Maybe there is a chance that the north pole could become Danish," Helge Sander, the science and technology minister, said yesterday. "We must be able to argue that it is a natural extension ", added Trine Dahl-Jensen of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

Greenland, the world's biggest island, is a semi-independent Danish territory whose northern tip is 500 miles south of the pole.

Denmark has joined Canada and Russia in charting the Arctic sea bed in an effort to claim ownership of the expanse.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1318107,00.html

[soothsayer]

1. Aha! We've found the motive for global warming. Just trying to gyp the

Danish out of their oil.

[truthisfreedom]

2. why, what a tasty little sno-cone! with an oily-flavored syrup!

yuck!

[FlemingsGhost]

3. Mmmmmm ... Danish.

D'oh!

[Eye and Monkey]

5. I think it's more like jelly-filled with powered sugar, isn't it?

[Maple]

4. Santa Claus is Canadian

He even has his own postal code here, believe it or not.

H0H 0H0

[Ediacara]

6. I am really interested in this from a nerdy perspective

Really good mapping of the Artic Ocean floor will give us a great idea of what the plates are doing up there. Current maps have plate boundries turning into dotted lines when they enter the zone of packed ice, and that's really unsatisfactory.

[mbperrin]

7. Could be Danish!

But it could be a kolache! (Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...)

[oscar111]

9. Penguins at north pole all speak Danish.My local zoo has an exhibit called

"Penguins of the north" with some from the n. polar icecap, some from the northern siberian regions, and one from the northern tip of Greenland. They were planted there in the early fifty century by the sea explorations of Portugese mariners, from a colony of penguins they found in Iceland.{now vanished}. Erik Landsfarne brought these specimens to our zoo in 1991 as part of the Natl Geographic public education project of that year, under a grant from the Danish academy of avian biology. I was at the time a professor of avian veterary medicine, and very involved with the project. To this day, the penguins of the north are a fascination of mine, and i have published fourteen papers on them.

[NickB79]

12. Penguins are native to the Southern hemisphere

I could accept the possibility that someone introduced penguins into the Northern hemisphere in the past century, but not that there were ever native populations of them there. There was a species of auk, the great auk, that closely resembled penguins, and occupied the same ecological niche, but it has been extinct for over a century.

I've been doing a Google search, but can't find any reference to penguin colonies in the Artic. Do you have a link to information these birds? I'd be very interested to read about such a colony. While I don't like the idea of introducing species outside their native range, penguin introductions into the Artic might be beneficial to replace the ecological significance of the great auks that we wiped out.

[dweller]

8. "You forgot Poland"

don't let it happen again!


dp

[Robbien]

10. Ha! You really did make me laugh out loud

Thanks

:thumbsup:

[Cicero]

11. Groan!!!!

I just hung my head after reading that one.

Later,