“In Greenland, you can get to pretty much anywhere in a matter of minutes," says local resident Alex Amasa Olsen.

The largely autonomous Danish territory, sparsely populated but strategically vast, sits between North America, Europe and Russia – and as the Arctic ice melts, its importance is growing fast

Many on island feel like pawns in a game that has upended the push for independence.

I fell in love with Greenland at twelve, through books. Danny Beck — an older family friend — left a Peter Freuchen book behind after a weekend at our house in Woody Creek. I

Father Tomaž Majcen, a Conventual Franciscan from Slovenia, has served in Greenland since 2023. Based in Nuuk, the capital, he celebrates daily Mass at Christ the King Church — the island’s only Catholic parish — and frequently travels to outlying towns to visit Catholics scattered across the territory.

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Lauren Petracca’s trip to Greenland changed her life. She was a local photojournalist working for Post and Courier in Charleston, SC, when she hopped on the plane heading