Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Few places on Earth feel as close to the edge of the world, yet ...

As many focus on the world's largest island, Greenland, and President Trump's aggressive efforts to acquire it, another strategic Arctic island, nearby Svalbard, may be an even more likely future ...

A great power competition is intensifying in the Arctic, and not only for Greenland. On a Norwegian archipelago called Svalbard, a century-old treaty has granted access to nearly all nations. The ...