Antarctica and Greenland are often thought to be bigger ... some more so than others. On Mercator projections Greenland occupies as much area as the entire continent of South America.

Egede acknowledged that Greenland is part of the North American continent, and "a place that the Americans see as part of their world." He said he hasn't spoken to Trump, but that he's open to ...

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

Moreover, Canada is closer to Greenland than Denmark and shares a land border on Hans Island. Existing ports, airfields and ...

Greenland, the world's largest island, is an autonomous territory under Denmark's rule, though it is geographically closer to North America than Europe. While Denmark oversees Greenland's foreign ...

especially given the recent rise in the importance of air power and Greenland’s position between major North American and Russian population centres via Arctic air routes. The Truman ...

Greenlanders do not want to be American or Danish, the Arctic island’s prime minister has said, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to acquire the ...

Arctic conditions did not dissuade US strategists; Greenland’s location between North America and Europe underscored its importance to American defense planning. Part of the renewed fervor ...

Vance further stipulated, “We also want to make sure that Greenland ... years in a bigger war, pacifying the Philippines, at a cost of some 4,000 American lives and more than 200,000 Filipino ...

The US president has floated the prospect of buying the vast Arctic territory for years – making several more remarks after ...