From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

See the Northern Lights in East Greenland Sail the world’s largest ... Led by marine specialists and oceanographers, this guided National Geographic Day Tour invites passengers to delve into ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was dark when Jesper Olsen fell. Dark and cold. In wintertime in northern Greenland there's not so much as a single ...

President-elect Donald Trump has openly talked in recent days about bringing Greenland under US control, refusing to rule out ...

President-elect Donald Trump recently snapped the gaze of the national security establishment to an often-overlooked ...

An island of just over 56,000 people, a majority of whom are of Inuit descent, Greenland has not shied away from its recent ...

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In an age of great power conflict, Greenland could play a larger role in U.S. security, and that could signal a great national reset.

President Trump has recently expressed a desire to expand American territory to include Greenland, the Panama Canal, and even ...

The president-elect has not ruled out using force to take it, arguing it's a national ... and Greenland have cold, arctic climates, similarly scarce population density, strategic geographic ...