Greenland in a sentence

Economy Royal Greenland fishing vessel "Akamalik", anchored at Sisimiut port Graphical depiction of Greenland's product exports in 28 colour-coded categories main Greenland today is dependent on fishing and fish exports.

Tremors from the quake - which lasted about a minute and could be Turkey's largest ever - were felt as far away as Greenland, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said.

Greenland Minerals is developing the Kvanefjeld rare earth project in Southwest Greenland.

The possibility of buying Greenland was floated seriously enough that in February 1946 Gallup polled Americans whether they should pay one billion dollars to buy Greenland from Denmark.

Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was set on "buying" Greenland—drawing a swift "no thank you" from Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Who's responsible, the question was asked, for enforcing the obligations in the project, especially since Greenland Forest City Partners--controlled 95% by Greenland USA--has begun to sell development rights?

As the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe sill deepened and thereby connected the Norwegian–Greenland sea with the Atlantic Ocean, the deep water of the North Atlantic began to come into play as well.

Between 1615 and 1820, the waters between Jan Mayen, Svalbard, Bear Island, and Greenland, between the Norwegian, Greenland, and Barents Seas, were the most productive whaling area in the world.

Biodiversity seeAlso The musk ox is the largest land mammal in Greenland There are approximately 700 known species of insects in Greenland, which is low compared with other countries (over one million species have been described worldwide).

For an extended time, nonetheless, the relatively warm West Greenland current flowing northwards along the southwestern coast of Greenland made it feasible for the Norse to farm much as their relatives did in Iceland or northern Norway.

Greenland Home Rule has become increasingly Greenlandized, rejecting Danish and avoiding regional dialects to standardize the country under the language and culture of the Kalaallit (West Greenland Inuit).

Leaving the Greenland Sea with 2.5 Sv its flow increases to 10 Sv south of Greenland.

Map of Greenland bedrock The Greenland ice sheet is convert thick and broad enough to blanket an area the size of Mexico.

Narwhals from Canada and West Greenland winter regularly in the pack ice of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay along the continental slope with less than 5% open water and high densities of Greenland halibut.

Norse failure A graphical description of changes in temperature in Greenland from 500 – 1990 based on analysis of the deep ice core from Greenland and some historical events.

Nuuk contains almost a quarter of Greenland's population, and also has the tallest building in Greenland.

Sea As a result of the high cost of flying goods to Greenland, Nuuk and other towns in Greenland are connected to Denmark by cargo vessels which sail mainly from Aalborg during the warmer months after the winter ice has melted.

There are many higher schools in Greenland, including the University of Greenland in Nuuk.

Uses The Mercator projection portrays Greenland as larger than Australia; in actuality, Australia is more than three and a half times larger than Greenland.

After visiting Greenland on several lengthy expeditions, he came to stay in 1910, founding a trading post in Thule, in the island’s far north, in partnership with his friend Knud Rasmussen.