Vance makes “aggressive” visit to Greenland

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is to visit the Space Base in Greenland –
over which the U.S. has jurisdiction – in what is being seen as a form
of hybrid warfare designed to destabilise the strategic Danish territory


TERRITORIAL CLAIMS
IN ARCTIC

1 U.S.
2 Russia
3 Canada

Nautical boundaries
Contested

4 Denmark
5 Norway
6 Iceland

Arctic Circle

1 2 3 4 5 6

Thousands of km
shorter than Suez or
Panama Canal
routes

Trade routes
North west
Transpolar
North east

Arctic resources
Estimated 13% of world’s
undiscovered oil, 30% of natural gas

Pituffik: Upgraded Early Warning
Radar able to detect Russian, Chinese
missile launches. Manned by 150 U.S.
Air Force and Space Force personnel

Visit by high-level
U.S. delegation
including VP
JD Vance – to
receive briefing
on Arctic security
– branded
“aggressive”
by Denmark


ARCTIC OCEAN

Pituffik Space
Base (U.S.)

GREENLAND
(DENMARK)

Baffin Bay
Sisimiut
Nuuk
Qaqortorsuaq
Arctic Circle
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Nalunaq

400km
250 miles


Sources: U.S. Naval Institute, EIA, Reuters 
Picture: Getty Images
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