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A map showing the locations of the United States (orange) and Greenland (green) Since the 19th century, the United States has considered, and made, several attempts to purchase the island of Greenland from Denmark, as it did with the Danish West Indies in 1917.
This war over weather intelligence helped reignite U.S. interest in Greenland. Germany occupied Denmark, enabling it to receive data from Danish weather stations on the island. Although this ...
In 2019, Senator Tom Cotton wrote in a New York Times op-ed that there are strategic benefits to buying Greenland, pointing to China trying to buy an old U.S. naval base on the island in 2016 and ...
Jeppesen 28, said he hopes to eventually move back to Greenland once he has established himself more with his career. Donald Trump Jr. visits Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 7, 2025.
In 2019 both Greenland and Denmark rejected Trump's offer to buy the island. When Greenland was still a colony, the U.S. under then-President Harry Truman sought to buy the island as a strategic ...
Greenland is located to the northeast of Canada and is largely covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet. The largest island in the world, but home to only around 60,000 people, it is a semi-autonomous ...
Greenland is the world’s largest island and home to more than 56,000 people. A former Danish colony and now an autonomous territory of Denmark, it occupies a unique geopolitical position ...
There is some support for a union with Canada, but the islands' small economy and Canada's involvement in Haiti made that controversial. In 1917, Robert Borden first suggested for Canada to annex the islands. In 1974, Canadian New Democratic Party MP Max Saltsman introduced a failed attempt at consolidating the islands.