Looking at the Earth from above provides a better view of how close countries are around the North Pole than a flat map view. How far is Nuuk, Greenland ... by plane via Iceland or Denmark ...

1867: Then US Secretary of State William Seward raised the idea of annexing Greenland, along with Iceland ... some of northern Europe and some of North America today. Around 500 million ...

Pituffik Space Base in the territory’s north-west hosts part of America’s missile-early-warning system. The so-called Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap plays a central role in the high ...

As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

Greenland is a very large, strategically important landmass. “You take a look at a map ... Iceland-UK gap, and is beneath Arctic flight paths. It is on the shortest route from North America ...

"I am worried Greenland will experience the 'Iceland effect ... he stated that Greenland is a part of the North American continent, "a place that the Americans see as part of their world".

Smothered by sheets of ice and rugged tundra, Greenland is the world’s largest island. Situated in the cold waters of the north Atlantic and crossing ... Banished from Iceland for committing murder, ...

President Trump's talk of acquiring Greenland has sparked creative proposals, from a bill to rename the island "Red, White ...