Every Arctic country likes to claim Santa Claus for their own. Canadian children write domestic letters to Santa with the specially allocated Canadian zip code H0H 0H0, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in 2013 “Everyone knows that Santa Claus is Canadian.” Finnish children are taught that Santa lives in Lapland, Finland’s northernmost region. Ask Norwegians, and he lives in Drøbak, Norway. But to Danish children, there is no doubt he lives in Greenland—specifically, in this particular house near the town of Uummannaq. While Denmark’s tradition of placing Santa in…
