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The Danish Foreign Ministry announces that it has reached a deal with Canada to divide the long-disputed Hans Island in the Arctic in half between Canada's Nunavut territory and Greenland.
2022-06-14

Satellite imagery shows that a big chunk of ice shattered into many small pieces from the last remaining ice shelf in Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, Greenland.
2020-09-14

Press sources report that U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly expressed interest in buying Greenland.
2019-08-15

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory releases a report officially disclosing a meteor explosion of roughly 2.1 kilotons of force near Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland on July 25. The United States Air Force confirms the explosion, adding that it did not impact operations at Thule Air Base.
2018-08-3

Analysis of ancient ice cores extracted from Greenland dates an eruption on Eldgjá volcano in Iceland. Iceland's largest eruption in the last 2,000 years was described in ancient poem Völuspá.
2018-03-20

Greenland's government calls for an early election on November 28 after an expenses scandal prompts Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond to step down as leader of the governing Siumut party. [http:--www.afp.com-en-news-greenland-government-calls-election-amid-pm-expenses-scandal (AFP)]date=August 2019
2014-10-1

Denmark proper (not counting Greenland) gets its first natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in addition to its three cultural sites, as Stevns Klint and the Danish parts of the Wadden Sea are inscribed on the UNESCO list.
2014-06-23

Scientists discover an 800km long canyon that is up to 800m deep in places beneath the ice sheet that covers Greenland.
2013-08-30

After her Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, Aleqa Hammond is set to become first female Prime Minister of Greenland.
2013-03-13

The Arctic Sun rises over Ilulissat, Greenland two days earlier than expected. A possible explanation is alterations in atmospheric refraction or inversion from ice crystals that may or may not be the result of global warming.
2011-01-11