That would allow Greenlanders to grow more than the paltry 100 tonnes of potatoes they manage now.

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Greenlanders can now grow potatoes, miners are eyeing newly accessible mineral reserves and trawlermen can more easily pursue fish into northern waters.

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In time the Greenlanders, encouraged by younger and more left-leaning voters, are expected to cut loose from the Danes, who themselves have conceded that full decolonisation is likely.

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Now the newspapers say Greenlanders are even growing strawberries.

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These are three of the five countries that border on the richest, and trickiest, prize of all, the Arctic (Denmark because it owns Greenland, unless and until the Greenlanders should become independent, as some wish).

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But for now it is still a trial and Anne Jensen, like most Greenlanders, goes to great lengths to show that the people who live here do not want to get wealthy on the heels of global warming.

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Three decades ago Greenlanders won a degree of home rule and then, anxious about fishing rights, promptly voted to pull themselves out of the European Union (then the European Community), completing the process in 1985, becoming the only people ever to secede from the continental block.

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