Greenland is a huge cold island, and usually that’s all that they know about it. Few people know that this is a region of unprecedented beauty – green grass, severe glaciers, tightly clamped the earth, a piercing wind … Yes, every person, not indifferent to natural beauty, at least once in life is to visit Greenland and see it with your own eyes.
The population density in Greenland is one of the smallest in the world.
Until 1900, it was believed that Greenland – the northernmost point of land on Earth, but the discovery of another island refuted this theory.
Approximately four-fifths of the entire surface of the island is buried under an ice shield.
Slipping icebergs from the Greenland icebergs sometimes differ in huge sizes, projecting over the water more than a hundred meters in height.
Despite the cold climate, in Greenland, there are fifty species of butterflies.
The total length of the coast of Greenland is about 39 thousand kilometers, which is comparable to the length of the earth’s equator. Such an impressive figure looms due to the fact that the Greenland coast is cut by a huge number of fjords.
Greenland translates as “green land”. This name was given to the island, because the pioneers saw the island in summer and on the side where there is no solid ice cover. A funny fact – Iceland, whose name means “ice land” – is much less like a solid block of ice than Greenland.
The main population of Greenland is the Eskimos, or, as they call themselves, Kalaallites.
Greenland is the largest island in the world.
In the Greenland capital, Nuuk, there are only about 17 thousand people.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in these parts is minus 70 degrees.
If all the Greenland ice completely melts, the level of the world’s ocean will rise by seven meters, which is fraught with the most severe ecological catastrophe.
The thickness of the ice covering the Greenland surface is on average one and a half kilometers.
It is here that Jakobshavn, the world’s fastest glacier, is moving at a speed of about thirty meters a day.
Traditional Greenland cuisine consists mainly of variations on the theme of raw fish.
