Despite being one of the remotest and most inaccessible corners of the planet, Greenland is on the cusp of a vast boom in oil and minerals that may change life for its 60,000 people forever, says Colin Freeman. It covers an area the size of Western Europe, but has less than the population of an small English town. All but five per cent of its land mass is covered by snow and ice, and there is no road or rail network at all. Yet despite being one of the remotest and most inaccessible corners of the planet, Greenland is on the cusp of a vast boom in oil and minerals that may change life for its 60,000 people forever. From oil and gas, through to precious stones and rare metals that are used in everything from iPhones through to wind-turbines, the land on the top of the world is shaping to become the globe's final frontier. Here, Sunday Telegraph chief foreign correspondent Colin Freeman and cameraman Julian Simmonds report from the capital, Nuuk - the tiny town of 15,000 that is on the verge of an unprecedented boom. Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/telegraph Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.

• published: 04 Nov 2013
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