Greenland’s rich oil, gas and rare earth mineral reserves and its Arctic location have always been its point of attraction.

U.S. President Trump seeks control over mineral-rich Greenland, a self-governing region of Denmark home to diverse Inuit populations. Greenland's growing geopolitical significance and resources could ...

The Norse explorer Erik the Red arrives in Greenland with a fleet of Viking ships, according to the medieval Icelandic sagas. The Norsemen established two settlements that had a peak population of ...

Archaeologists had assumed that walrus hunting by the Norse had happened only in southern Greenland, where they had settled. But in her 2024 thesis, Ruiz-Puerta studied the genetic fingerprints of ...

At about 2500 BCE, the first Inuit people settled in Greenland. In the 10th century, Norse explorers arrived in Greenland and established settlements. By 1814, Denmark had officially made ...

NUUK, Greenland — Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight as U.S. President Donald Trump maneuvers to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory that most people know ...

Finding no survivors, he builds a new settlement at Kangeq, near modern day Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, and begins efforts to convert the Indigenous people to Christianity.

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Lutheran missionary Hans Egede arrives in Greenland to search for the lost Norse settlements. Finding no survivors, he builds a new settlement at Kangeq, near modern day Nuuk, Greenland´s capital ...

FILE - The Hutchinson family is rowed to safety through the ice floes to the trawler Lord Talbot after their plane was forced down near Eker, Greenland, Sept. 28, 1932. (AP Photo, file) ...