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D. The Nares Strait separates the larger islands while connecting Baffin Bay in the Atlantic Ocean with the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. Greenland is the world’s largest island, and Ellesmere Island is Canada's northernmost and third-largest island.
B. Denmark occupies the northern portion of the Jutland Peninsula and Germany occupies the southern portion. Splitting up Hans Island may have created one of the world’s shortest land borders, but it completes a maritime border between Canada and Denmark that is the world’s longest at 2,412 miles.
C. Norsemen from what is now Norway first settled in Iceland in 874. Later, Norsemen traveled about 180 miles north to Greenland to establish a settlement. Some Greenland Norse went on to what is now Newfoundland, Canada, landing 500 years before Christopher Columbus set sail. Norse settlements in Canada and Greenland were later abandoned.
A. Canada and Denmark were among the 12 European and North American nations who formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949. NATO now has 30 member countries, which have pledged to defend each other against any attack by outside nations.