stackyFACTSFor decades, the UK and Iceland engaged in a series of aggressive naval confrontations strictly over fishing rights in the North Atlantic. Iceland successfully expanded its exclusive economic zone by threatening to withdraw from NATO during the height of the Cold War.
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