Greenlanders go to the polls on Tuesday (12 March) in a vote that will attract an inordinate amount of outside interest for a semi-autonomous territory of just 57,000 people.
The interest is largely due to climate change. The melting ice in the Arctic has opened up new shipping routes and made it easier to access natural resources, in abundance on Greenland.
Investors are lining up to try and exploit reserves of oil, gas, iron ore, aluminum and rare earths.
"There is a lot ...
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