Greenland. Has its inaccessibility begun to thaw?

With writhing beaches of fleshy walruses and encounters with polar bears on fractured icefloe, Svalbard has for a while been the star of small ship adventure voyages in the Arctic region. There’s something of a paradox, though, when it comes to Greenland. While Svalbard tourism has thrived, the equally wild and adventurous Greenland has reportedly been a much harder sell. This is primarily due to Greenland’s inaccessibility: its landmass is humungous and has long lacked tourist infrastructure. But this may be about to change.

The island recently opened a new airport in its capital, Nuuk, improving access to its more popular west coast. There’s little doubt the island is benefitting from a Trump ‘bounce’ as the US president’s fanciful ambitions to possess this Danish territory have kept Greenland in the news.