Greenland’s rich oil, gas and rare earth mineral reserves and its Arctic location have always been its point of attraction.

Most of Greenland was covered in ice, so Erik the Red and his followers settled in the few areas with vegetation. The Norse ...

But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers, has a history of human habitation that stretches back more than 4,000 years. The self-governing region of Denmark has ...

Here are five things to know about Greenland: Inhabited by Inuits on and off for almost 4,500 years, the island was originally dubbed 'Green land' by Erik the Red, a Viking explorer who landed on ...

Denmark's self-governing territory of Greenland, which votes Tuesday in legislative elections, has been propelled into the political spotlight because of its natural resources and strategic geographic ...

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A little north and west of Greenland's stormy southern tip, on a steep hillside above an iceberg-clotted fjord first ...

POLAR BEARS, ARCTIC FOX, A POD OF NARWHALS. IT WAS THE VIKING EXPLORER ERIK THE RED WHO NAMED IT GREENLAND AND INTENTIONALLY DECEPTIVE MONIKER IN THE HOPES OF DRAWING SETTLERS TO A MORE PLEASANT ...