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2 days ago · Greenland, the world’s largest island, lying in the North Atlantic Ocean. Greenland is noted for its vast tundra and immense glaciers. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but the island’s home-rule government is responsible for most domestic affairs.
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Greenland - Inuit, Norse, Arctic: Nearly nine-tenths of...
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Greenland - Viking, Inuit, Colonization: The Inuit are...
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Greenland Ice Sheet, the single ice sheet or glacier...
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5 days ago · 12 September 2024. A massive landslide in a Greenland fjord triggered a wave that “shook the Earth” for nine days. The seismic signal last September was picked up by sensors all over the world,...
4 days ago · In September 2023, an unusual seismic signal raced around the world, zipping from eastern Greenland to Antarctica in less than 1 hour. The seismic waves continued to radiate worldwide for 9 days, ringing Earth like a giant bell. Now, scientists have tracked these mysterious signals to their source—a colossal landslide in a remote Greenland ...
2 days ago · Arctic - Greenland, Ice Sheet, Climate: Erik the Red founded a small Norse colony on Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) in 986 ce, although the Norse and the Thule people seem not to have interacted until the 13th century.
4 days ago · The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak in east Greenland last September caused water in the fjord below to splash back and forth, causing vibrations right through to the Earth's crust.
4 days ago · Greenland - Viking, Inuit, Colonization: The Inuit are believed to have crossed to northwest Greenland from North America, using the islands of the Canadian Arctic as stepping-stones, in a series of migrations that stretched from at least 2500 bce to the early 2nd millennium ce.
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5 days ago · A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland was the result of melting glacial ice that caused a landslide. The waves it created bounced back and forth for nine days.
