Greenland has been in the spotlight this year thanks to Donald Trump's "scandalising designs" on its mineral resources.

But the vast Arctic island has also had a more welcome boost, said Henry Wismayer in the Financial Times – the opening of an international airport in its capital, Nuuk . Until now, most visitors flew in to a remote former US air base 200 miles away, and many never got to see this striking harbour town.

Home to 20,000 of Greenland's 57,000 residents, Nuuk offers a good introduction to the island's culture and history. Particularly noteworthy is the National Museum, where you can see the sleds, kayaks, harpoons and so on that enabled the Inuit and Paleo-Eskimo peoples to survive on its "frigid" shores for more than 4,000 years.

Nuuk was founded by the Danes, who arri

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