Greenland

The world’s largest island looks like an awesome, abandoned and unworked quarry covered by almost two million square kilometres of ice, which is in places up to four kilometres thick. The perfect location for making a sci-fi Martian movie or for training astronauts to moon-walk. However, the coast, with its magnificent mountains, fjords, glaciers and icebergs, is breathtakingly beautiful and attracts thousands of hikers, botanists, fishermen, naturalists, geologists, mountaineers, adventurers and the plain crazy, not to mention whale-watchers, Arctic sun lovers and television crews. But, as yet, Michelin has resisted the urge to publish a Greenland gastronomic guide. It appears that most of its food is imported from Canada, although in the south excellent sheep are bred on cultivated salt grassland. Sheep, along with prawns and halibut, are the main food resources, except for — of course — musk ox, kittiwakes, seal, whale and reindeer.