Greenland
About Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are citizens of Denmark. They are thus citizens of the European Union (EU), although Greenland is not part of the EU. It is the world's largest island and lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It shares a small 1.2-kilometre (0.75 mi) border with Canada on Hans Island. The capital and largest city is Nuuk. Kaffeklubben Island off the northern coast is the world's northernmost undisputed point of land – Cape Morris Jesup on the main island was thought to be so until the 1960s. Economically, Greenland is heavily reliant on aid from Denmark, which has averaged 5.4 billion kr. annually in the period 2019–2023, amounting to more than 20% of the territory's gross domestic product.
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Eric the Red was expelled from Iceland for manslaughter, and the idea is he called it Greenland to lure people there, thinking an appealing name would make them want to go.
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More facts about Greenland
Project Iceworm was an American Cold War plan to build a massive underground network of tunnels below the Greenland ice as missile launch sites within easy reach of the Soviet Union.
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In 2009 a group of geoengineers covered part of Greenland in a big white blanket to reflect the sun and stop the ice melting, and it was surprisingly successful.
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Greenland's ice sheet is so heavy that it has pressed the land into a bowl-shaped country.
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Ice floating in seawater does not raise the sea when it melts, but if all the ice sitting on the land of Greenland melted, sea levels would rise by about seven metres.
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No two towns in Greenland are connected by road; you have to travel between them by boat or by plane.
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The tallest trees in Greenland are only a couple of inches high.
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A national park in Greenland is 44,000 square kilometres, bigger than Denmark, and if it were an independent nation it would be the 130th largest country in the world.
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Denmark owns Greenland, but Greenland governs itself.
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Greenland's largest place, Nuuk, has about 19,000 people, which would be a village in the UK, yet it still appears on every globe.
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A giant canyon under the Greenland ice formed about four million years ago, and no human has ever seen it because we did not yet exist when it formed.
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The Mercator projection makes Greenland look about 12 times bigger than it really is, though it genuinely is the biggest island in the world.
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A startup in Greenland exports what it calls black ice, claimed to be the purest ice possible, to Dubai to use as ice cubes in cocktails.
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Scientists measure lead trapped in the miles-thick Greenland ice sheet to reconstruct the ancient Roman economy, since less silver in Roman coins meant less lead pollution.
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Off the northern tip of Greenland an explorer found what he named Coffee Club Island, the northernmost point of land on all of Earth.
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The few railways ever built on Greenland are small ones, mostly just to transport fish from the fishing grounds to where people live.
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Eric the Red founded a European settlement on Greenland after being expelled from Iceland for murder, and his son Leif Erikson sailed from there to North America about 500 years before Columbus.
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Greenland has to import a lot of its goods by diesel boat, so the boats arrive full and would otherwise leave empty; at least by exporting ice they leave with something.
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