Many claims have been thrown around by the US Government these last weeks: about boats landing 500 years ago, about the US ‘giving Greenland back’ to Denmark after World War II, and about who has the ‘right’ to the country. Allegedly, the US have been talking about it ‘for a long time’. This historical overview provides a factual background for the debates.
Iben Bjørnsson (Thu,) studied this question.