GREENLAND

Where is Greenland?
It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The
geographic co-ordinates of Greenland are 72 degrees North latitude and 40 degrees West longitude.
It is also located to the North-side of North America.

How cold does it get?

In the Northern cities it can get to a staggering minus 50 degrees Celsius.

The landscape
The terrain is mostly a flat but gradually sloping icecap that covers all land except for a narrow,
mountainous, barren, rocky coast. The lowest elevation is sea level and the highest elevation is the
summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, the highest point in the Arctic at 3,694 meters (12,119 ft.).

When was it discovered?

The first humans are thought to have arrived in Greenland around 2500 BC. Their descendants
apparently died out and were succeeded by several other groups migrating from continental North
America. There is no evidence that Greenland was known to Europeans until the 10th century, when
Icelandic Vikings settled on its southwestern coast, which seems to have been uninhabited when
they arrived. The ancestors of the Inuit Greenlanders who live there today appear to have migrated
there later, around 1200 AD, from northwestern Greenland.

The population
In 2014 the population of Greenland was 56,290.

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