Editing Terra nullius (section)

==== Eastern Greenland ====
[[Norway]] occupied and claimed parts of (then uninhabited) eastern [[Greenland]] in 1931, claiming that it constituted ''terra nullius'' and calling the territory [[Erik the Red's Land]].<ref name=Jacobs-2015-03-04>{{cite web |first=Frank |last=Jacobs |date=4 March 2015 |title=The cold war that wasn't: Norway annexes Greenland |website=Big Think (bigthink.com) |url=http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-cold-war-that-wasnt-norway-annexes-greenland |access-date= 30 March 2018}}</ref>

The [[Permanent Court of International Justice]] ruled against the Norwegian claim. The Norwegians accepted the ruling and withdrew their claim.