@article{Skarstein_2006, title={Erik the Red’s Land: the land that never was}, volume={25}, url={https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2048}, DOI={10.3402/polar.v25i2.6246}, abstractNote={In May this year, a Briton named Alex Hartley gamely claimed as his personal territory a tiny island in Svalbard that had been revealed by retreating ice. Sval bard’s islands have a long history of claims and counter-claims by adventurers of diverse nations: the question of who owns the Arctic is an old one. In this next article in our unreviewed biographical/historical series, Frode Skarstein describes Norway’s bid to wrest a corner of Greenland from the Danish crown 75 years ago.}, number={2}, journal={Polar Research}, author={Skarstein Frode}, year={2006}, month={Jun.}, pages={173-179} }