Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.

In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit.

In Canada and Greenland the term Eskimo is widely held to be pejorative and has fallen out of favour, largely supplanted by the term Inuit.

The northernmost point of the Island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909.

It is thought that before the Ice Age Greenland had mountainous edges, and a lowland ( and probably very dry ) center which drained to the sea by one big river flowing out westwards past where Disko Island is now.

There is concern about sea level rise caused by ice loss ( melt and glaciers falling into the sea ) on Greenland.

By 2005, Greenland was beginning to lose more ice volume than anyone expected – an annual loss of up to per year, according to more recent satellite gravity measurements released by JPL.

Except for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

After World War II, reforms were finally enacted by the Danish Greenland Commission composed of Greenland Provincial Council members and Danish economists.

As such, the only seal tannery in the country Great Greenland in Qaqortoq is heavily subsidized by the government to maintain the livelihood of smaller communities which are economically dependent on the hunt.

Approximately half of total sales are conducted by KNI, the state-owned successor to the Royal Greenland Trade Department ; its rural sales division Pilersuisoq ; or its daughter company recently purchased by the Danish Dagrofa Pisiffik.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

Greenland has offered 8 license blocks for tender along its west coast by Baffin Bay.

The web address Greenland. com is owned and operated by Visit Greenland, the state-owned tourism agency.

Tourism has been limited by the short summers and high costs: the only settlements in Greenland connected by road are Ivigtut and Grønnedal and Ivigtut has been abandonned since the 1980s.

At present, local production accounts for 10 % of potatoes consumption in Greenland, but that is projected to grow to 15 % by 2020.

Greenland has, by law, only one service provider for telecommunications and internet, TELE Greenland, which is fully owned by the Greenlandic Home Rule government.

* Inughuit people of north Greenland, who speak Inuktun or Polar Eskimo.

Polar bear and reindeer hunting in Greenland still occur but are regulated to avoid endangering the populations.

This journey was documented in Rasmussen's account Greenland by the Polar Sea ( 1921 ).

More geographically correct were Icelandic texts from about the same time, which presented a clear picture of the northern countries as experienced by Norse explorers: north of Iceland a vast, barren plain ( which we now know to be the Polar ice-cap ) extended from Biarmeland ( northern Russia ) east of the White Sea, to Greenland, then further west and south were, in succession, Helluland, Markland and Vinland.

( Rasmussen, 1921, p. 113 ) myth is from the Inughuit | Polar Eskimo, of Smith Sound ( in northern Greenland ).

During the ( north ) Polar Exploration of the early 20th century, Inuit of northern Greenland were found to be making iron knives from two particularly large nickel-iron meteors.

* Nanortalik Island ( Kalaallisut: " Polar Bear Place "), Greenland, whose name was sometimes previously translated as " Bear Island "

* Localities, Distribution and Stratigraphical Context of the Late Devonian Tetrapods of East Greenland ( Meddelelser om Grønland ), with Henning Blom and Per Erik Ahlberg, Danish Polar Center, 2005, ISBN 978-8790369767.

Image: Greenland ice stream. jpg | Polar ice stream

* Gilberg, R., Jørgensen, J. Balslev & Laughlin, William S. Anthropometrical and skinfold thickness measurements on the Polar Eskimos, Thule District, North Greenland Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1975.

* 2008-" HiFlyer Polar Ice Expedition "-reaching the Gunnbjørn Fjeld summit, the highest peak in Greenland ( 3694 m ), with Leszek Cichy, Tomasz Walkiewicz, Mirosław Polowiec, Ryszard Rusinek.

) obtains an ice core from a position in southeast Greenland where the Polar MM5 model simulates a maximum in snow accumulation, 2.

Petermann still believed, however, that Greenland stretched far into the Polar region.

As 84 % of Greenland's land mass is covered by the Greenland ice sheet, Kalaallit live in three regions: Polar, Eastern, and Western.

* Air Greenland " Nanoq Class " ( translated " Polar Bear Class ")

His book Give Me My Father's Body: The Story of Minik, the New York Eskimo tells the story of Minik Wallace, a member of the Inughuit or " Polar Eskimo " tribe who was among a group taken by Robert Peary from his home in northwest Greenland to New York.

From 1856 to 1859 he studied the glacial phenomena of Switzerland, Iceland, Spitsbergen and Greenland, and in 1861 made the first of two Arctic expeditions to the Polar sea in company with Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

It connects to the Arctic Ocean through the Denmark Strait, Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea.

The territory of Denmark includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

The Inuit inhabit the Arctic and northern Bering Sea coasts of Alaska and Arctic coasts of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador, and Greenland.

Breeding colonies can be found in the Pacific from the Kuril Islands, around the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk throughout the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands to southeast Alaska, and in the Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence through Greenland and the coast of Ireland down to Portugal, as well as in the high Arctic islands.

It is located between the North Sea ( i. e. north of Scotland ) and the Greenland Sea and adjoins the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.

To the North, the Jan Mayen Ridge separates it from the Greenland Sea.

The Southeastern limit of Greenland Sea

It is largely formed in the Labrador Sea and in the Greenland Sea by the sinking of highly saline, dense overflow water from the Greenland Sea.

Leaving the Greenland Sea with 2. 5 Sv its flow increases to 10 Sv south of Greenland.

The third water mass originates from the Greenland Sea, too, but it leaves the basin between Iceland and Scotland.

New South Greenland, observed in the Weddell Sea in 1823 but never again seen, may have been the result of a superior mirage, though other explanations, including icebergs, misnavigation and even fabrication have been suggested.