canada valiantly defends uninhabited rock

Canada has sent two warships up into the Arctic to defend a small piece of uninhabited rock called Hans Island. Apparently the Danes are invading visited it this one time, so the warships will, you know, stop them from doing that. According to the Globe and Mail:

"The 1.3-kilometre stretch of windswept rock, which is smaller than many nearby icebergs [...] was briefly home to a scientific station in the 1940s." (full article)

And Optimus, as usual, misses the point entirely.