Why don’t the British own land North of the Arctic Circle?
Question by Eric S: Why don’t the British own land North of the Arctic Circle?
USA has Northern Alaska, Canada has lots of vast land up there, Denmark has (Greenland),
Russia speaks for itself, Norway owns an island called Svalbard, Iceland speaks for itself, Sweden has cottages, Finland has the Midsummer Fest.
The British get reallllyyyyyyy close with Orkney and the Shetland Islands and the Hebrides….it’s like 60 degrees North…….just 700 more kilometres shy of the arctic circle……
sooooo close….why don’t the British want a piece of the pie?
You would be able to play football all night in continuous summer sunlight
Edit to Carina: Oh yes, when Canada was British the “Hudson Bay Company” (HBC) controlled the Arctic territories of the land.
It was not even called Canada. the only Canada then was Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec)
North of the Arctic Circle you got
1) Alaska
2) Fort McPherson, Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk and Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada;
3) Resolute Bay, Ellesmere Island, Canada
4) Part of Nunavut
5) Greenland
6) Iceland
7) Tromso, Norway
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Spitzbergen(Norway)
9) Northern Sweden
10) Finland (Lapland)
11) Murmansk, Russia
12) Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya, Russia
13) Siberian town of Nordisk
And no sign of Britain
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Answer by carina
well Canada was British at one time
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What’s north of the Arctic Circle?
Well there isnt much worth having North of the UK. Its all just ice these days with nothing much underneath. Maybe back when the world was a warmer place Greenland and Iceland would have been worth having.
The South Pole is a much better option which is why Britain has claim to a lot of Antarctica. There is plenty of ice but also a lot of land underneath it. Land that contains minerals and oil etc. One of the main reasons we went to war with Argentina was to maintain our control over Antarctica. Whereas we only had the Cod War with Iceland over the North.
Not that many years ago Canada was a British Colony.
in the Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament
Britain owned a quarter of the world and a Quarter of its Population, it had the biggest Empire in History, but after 1945 (the end of WW2) Britain started giving its Empire away.
Britain owned Colony’s in Africa right up to the 80s.
Britain owns a lot of land in Antartica, below South America.
The British Commonwealth, now just known as the Commonwealth of Nations still exists, This is a collection of country’s that were former Colony’s of Britain, such as Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and so on… All of which have the Queen of England as their queen also.