Donald Trump's economic adviser has confirmed that the US president "wants to take a look at" buying Greenland. His interest in the Danish territory emerged this week when he reportedly discussed it in a private meeting with advisers. Danish politicians poured scorn on the idea, but Trump adviser Larry Kudlow has confirmed it was not a joke. America has had an air base in Greenland for decades as part of its global network of missile radars and space surveillance. The island's foreign ministry tweeted on Friday: " Greenland is rich in valuable resources such as minerals, the purest water and ice, fish stocks, seafood, renewable energy and is a new frontier for adventure tourism.
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The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice cap covers about 80 percent of the island, restricting human activity largely to the coasts. The first humans are thought to have arrived in Greenland around BC. Their descendants apparently died out and were succeeded by several other groups migrating from continental North America. There has been no evidence discovered that Greenland was known to Europeans until the 10th century, when Icelandic Vikings settled on its southwestern coast, which seems to have been uninhabited when they arrived. The ancestors of the Inuit Greenlanders who live there today appear to have migrated there later, around AD , from northwestern Greenland. While the Inuit survived in the icy world of the Little Ice Age , the early Norse settlements along the southwestern coast disappeared, leaving the Inuit as the only inhabitants of the island for several centuries.
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People of Greenland are citizens of Denmark. Approximately 89 percent of Greenland's population of 57, is Greenlandic Inuit , or 51, people as of [update]. Historically, Kalaallit referred specifically to the people of Western Greenland.
Yes :. The idea of the U. Trump has, with varying degrees of seriousness, repeatedly expressed interest in buying the ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr.