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Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous nation within the Kingdom of Denmark. It is part of the North American continent situated between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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How many indigenous people live in Greenland?
The population of Greenland is about 57,000 and indigenous peoples make up 89% of the population, totaling to about 50,730.
What is the Coffee Club Island?
Coffee Club Island (Kaffeklubben Island in Danish) is a small island off the north coast of Greenland, important only for being the "closest land to the North Pole."
According to the Guinness Book of Records it is only 708 kilometers away from the geographic north pole.
What is the size of Greenland in square kilometers?
Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland. The population in Nuuk is approximately 17,000.
Does Greenland have Girl Scouts?
Greenland has Girl Guides through Denmark's national organization, Pigespejdernes Fællesråd Danmark. Greenland's group is known as the Kalaallit Nanaanni Spejderit Kattufiat - Grønlands Spejderkorps.
How many Greenland sharks are alive?
loads of sharks live in green land but no one knows how many lives in the oceans or how many die but there are more that over 12,00
What uses of transport do they have in Greenland?
Most kinds of transport are used. Cars, buses and trucks, boats (few), and airplanes. Air travel is by far the most popular and widely used.
Found by whom? The oldest existing evidence of human habitation is from 12,500-12,000 BC. The first danes came in 1-400 AD, where they mixed with the existing jutes.
Why does Canada claim Greenland?
Canada claims Hans Island which is disputed between Canada and Denmark because of its location in the middle of an international strait.
Because when Erik the Red (Danish: Erik den Røde) first came back from Greenland, he wanted people to follow him to the new land. And therefore called it GreenLand (A Green Land), to attract people.
Is the Greenland shark dangerous?
While the greenland shark may be dangerous in the fact that it is a shark that could easily eat a person whole, it isn't too common to run in to any. Another fun fact about the greenland shark is that it's skin is poisonous! That makes them even more dangerous!
Is Greenland bigger than India?
No!, the picture below shows Greenland bigger than India. But this projection is wrong because its a Mercator Projection:- Mercator projection: The maps we see and use in schools are based on Mercator projection. A Mercator projection is a mathematical method of showing a map of the globe on a flat surface. This projection was developed in 1568 byGerhardus Mercator a Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartographer.
Mercator projection was made during an age when Europe dominated and exploited the world. The white dominated countries are thus portrayed to be extraordinarily large, while non white countries become extraordinarily small. It seems that the Mercator map was made to artificially portray the territorial "superiority" of the colonial powers, and psychologically impact the gullible minds of the colonised into submission. Surprisingly, even today maps in India reflect that bygone era.
The United Nations in 1974, acknowledging this discrepancy (in Mercator maps), accepted a new map made by another German, Arno Peters. It is called the Peters' projection or the Peters' map. It has equal areas, and equal representation. Peters' map shows countries in their relative sizes, and is based upon Peters' decimal grid, which divides the surface of the Earth into a hundred longitudinal fields of equal width, and a hundred latitudinal fields of equal height.
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What kind of money is in Greenlands?
Greenland, as a province of Denmark, uses the Danish Kroner as its currency.
Yes, but a very long time ago. Scientists who probed two kilometers (1.2 miles) through a Greenland glacier to recover the oldest plant DNA on record said the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is generally believed. DNA of trees, plants and insects including butterflies and spiders from beneath the southern Greenland glacier was estimated to date to 450,000 to 900,000 years ago, according to the remnants retrieved from this long-vanished boreal forest. That view contrasts sharply with the prevailing one that a lush forest of this kind could only have existed in Greenland as recently as 2.4 million years ago. The existence of those DNA samples suggests the temperature probably reached 10 degrees C (50 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer and -17 °C (1 °F) in the winter. They also indicated that during the last interglacial period, 116,000-130,000 years ago, when temperatures were on average 5 °C (9 °F) higher than now, the glaciers on Greenland did not completely melt away.
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What does Greenland need to become a continent?
Have more than one nation state within its boundaries
Greenland is a misnomer because it's a name of a land but it's not green at all. It's actually white. During the Viking period, Erik the Red named Greenland hoping it'll trick settlers coming over. The trick worked because they thought the land was green with no air pollution and it's a quiet park as they looked at the map, but when they got there, they froze to death.
Why is it cold in Greenland and warm in the Caribbean island?
Greenland is close to the arctic circle. The Caribbean is close to the Equator.
Why is green land called green land?
a viking fond green land and ice land said the green land was Ice and could and the own was warm SO evre own would go to green land and he went to ice land insted :]
Why are there not enough organists in Denmark?
This is a problem which is not just in Denmark, it effects most of Europe and beyond - until churches realise that encouraging young people to have a go on the organ is a positive thing and the churches themselves start to support people who want to play the organ this problem is not going to go away. Schools do not teach organ - they want to teach our children keyboard which has auto rhythms and auto chords and does not teach the necessary skills.
Who is Eric The Red's family tree?
My family one of the Olson family i have a very large family tree and Eric The Red is in my family
Is Greenland bigger than Australia?
Australia is four to five times bigger than Greenland. Greenland is frequently pictured on maps of the world based on the Mercator Projection, which makes Greenland look much larger than it actually is.
