The mineral-rich Arctic island is also home to a U.S. air base and straddles strategic air and sea routes in the North Atlantic.

Greenland’s pro-business opposition party won the Arctic island’s closely-watched parliamentary election on Tuesday, following a race dominated both by US President Donald Trump’s annexation threat and growing calls from residents for independence from Denmark.

In a tiny workshop in Greenland's capital Nuuk, goldsmith Nadja Arnaaraq Kreutzmann polishes metals and stones mined and gathered on the vast mineral-rich island. The jewellery she crafts is adorned with Inuit symbols of life and survival.