The Cod Wars (Icelandic: Þorskastríðin; also known as Landhelgisstríðin, lit. 'The Coastal Wars'; German: Kabeljaukriege) were a series of 20th-century confrontations between Iceland and …

In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war, to some degree. The Cod Wars were a series of disputes between Britain and Iceland which took place between the 1950s to the …

Jun 21, 2018 · In English, they were simply “the Cod Wars.” Between the late 1940s and 1976, the two island nations of Iceland and the United Kingdom all but declared war—despite the …

May 23, 2020 · The war ended in June 1976, for the British withdrew yet again. With the discovery of oil and gas in the North Sea, it was clearly time to rethink the old attitude to territorial …

The cod wars were a series of disputes between Britain and Iceland running from the 1950s to the 1970s over the rights to fish in Icelandic waters. Although it was never a war in the …

Mar 8, 2025 · The Cod Wars can be broken down into three main conflicts, commonly referred to as the First, Second, and Third Cod Wars. The First Cod War (1958–1961) saw Iceland …

The Cod Wars, also called the Icelandic Cod Wars (Icelandic language: Þorskastríðin, "the cod war", or Landhelgisstríðin, "the war for the territorial waters" [1]), were a series of …

During the Cod Wars, both Icelandic Coast Guard vessels and British naval escorts, frigates, and trawlers sustained structural damage primarily from deliberate ramming maneuvers, with the …

Although all the political parties supported the claim for Iceland’s dominance over the fishing grounds, only the more isolationist parties were willing to risk Iceland’s good relations with its …

Dec 8, 2025 · The Cod Wars were a series of confrontations between Iceland and the United Kingdom during the mid-20th century, primarily over fishing rights in the North Atlantic. This …