Yes but the point is that we are not claiming someone else's land based on proximity. How many other countries are demanding islands they've never owned despite them being 480km from their own coastline?
Spain and Gib is far more understandable, and the main reason that never progresses is...
I'm not too hot on the history but do know that Argentina wasn't even a country when they claimed it was inherited from the Spanish. Additionally, their claim based on proximity to the South American mainland is an absolute joke: they are 300 miles away from the closest point of Argentina.