Greenland - the largest island on the planet

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Greenland-the largest island of the earth. Its area is 2.2 million km2, whereas the largest island in Russia-Sakhalin - covers an area of just 76 thousand km2. Greenland means “country”. It is very strange when you consider that about 80% of the island covered with ice. The fact that in 982 a group of Norsemen, led by Eric Raud, landed on the southern part of the island. At that time there grow birch, juniper, adorned with juicy meadows with high grasses, so they called it Greenland.

Even after and found that more than 1.8 million km2 ice-covered and there is nothing living, but the name did not change. In summer, the temperature on the island is barely 12°C in winter on the coast lasts around -7°C, and closer to the North of -36°C. In some areas the minimum temperature reaches -70°C.

The big islandThe Ice sheet in the island formed about the same time as the ice sheet of Antarctica. For millennia in Greenland snow flocked, not melting because of low temperature. Over time it turned into a huge reservoir of ice, its average thickness is in the range 2 – 2.5 km and in some places reaches 3.5 km.

The largest island holding the enormous weight of the ice, its layers from the center are slowly moving closer to the coast of Greenland. Mountain ranges like a giant bowl, it seems, from last forces held the bulk of the ice, but some ice floes break off and fall from the heights into the water, turning into huge icebergs – main danger of the ships plying the Atlantic ocean.

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the largest island of the earthUp to 1536 the largest island belonged to Norway, and then became a colony of Denmark. In 1953, Greenland has acquired the status of a Danish province. The population of small Islands – a total of 50 thousand people. This is mainly the Greenland Eskimos, the Danes and the Norwegians. The most populous city is Nuuk (Gotham). It is home to about 14 thousand Greenlanders.

Gotham was founded in 1721 by the missionary from Norway H. egged, who came to Greenland with the goal to Christianize the local Eskimos. At that time there were about 12 families. He then founded a town, calling it “good hope". In 1979, after Greenland became Autonomous, Gotham was renamed Nuuk. He is considered the economic capital of the island, as it holds much of the industry.

the largest island of RussiaThe largest island is practically uninhabitable because of climatic conditions here are severe. Only on the coasts there is a small strip of land, where actually lives the local population. Greenlanders are mainly engaged in fishing and hunting in warmer regions – sheep. Greenland is in the first place for the production of processed shrimp, it is here that annually catch about 30 thousand tons of fish.

The largest island remains virtually undeveloped man territory. There are no Railways, by car, you can drive only in the city. To get to another location, you need to use a snowmobile or a dogsled. Greenland is somewhat similar to the snow Queen, a beautiful and impregnable.


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