Although the government of Greenland states that approximately 170, 000 seals are killed in Greenland annually, the Government of Canada estimates the kill as between 20, 000 to 25, 000.

( First place: Nuuk, Greenland ; the Icelandic capital Rekyjavik takes second place globally and ranks as the northernmost capital city in all of Europe )

Politics of Greenland takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic Danish dependency.

Several place names in Iceland, Greenland and Norway may originate from walrus sites ; Hvalfjord, Hvallatrar and Hvalsnes to name some, all being typical walrus breeding grounds.

The relationship with Scandinavia and the Baltic is also reflected in the names of some of the buildings ( such as the King Frederik IX Tower ), the street names ( e. g. Finland Street, Sweden Gate, Baltic Quay, Norway Gate, Helsinki Square ) or other place names ( e. g. Greenland Dock ).

* Air Defense Emergency: A major hostile attack by aircraft or missiles seems probable, is imminent, or is taking place on the continental United States, Canada, or Greenland.

Expeditionary ski mountaineering necessary to reach the base of climbing routes takes place in such places as the Andes, Alaska, Himalayas and Greenland.

Major efforts have taken place on Greenland and Antarctica.

Sodalite-syenites in which sodalite very largely or completely takes the place of nepheline occur in Greenland, where they contain also microcline-perthite, aegirine, arfvedsonite and eudialyte.

Greenland Dock Pier is the nearest place for boarding London River Services, operated by Thames Clippers.

Fish from Bornholm, Iceland and Greenland also has a special place in the Danish cuisine.

This took place on March 24, in Kangia fjord near Ilullissat, Greenland.

Eismitte, in English also called Mid-Ice, was the site of an Arctic expedition in the interior of Greenland that took place from July 1930 through August 1931, and claimed the life of noted German scientist Alfred Wegener.

There are permanent salutory guns in place at Kronborg, the Sixtus battery at Holmen naval base, as well as at the naval base at Kangilinnguit in Greenland.

It is estimated that more than 90 % of the Arctic Sea Ice exported from the Arctic takes place within the East Greenland Current.

They find that even though these sources freshen the EGC, these specific sources do not penetrate very well into the central Greenland Sea where the deep convection takes place.

A Catalan chart of about 1480 labels two islands " Illa de brasil ", one to the south west of Ireland ( where the mythical place was supposed to be ) and one south of " Illa verde " or Greenland.

The little green Dragon Tabaluga is a cartoon character, who lives in the fictional place of Greenland.

In this series, Tabaluga is the last of the dragons and the crown-prince of Greenland, a magical place inhabited by talking animals of many different species.

For the next twelve years he traveled, refusing to stay in one place more than six months, and worked his way through the countries of West Africa, into Europe, and finally, in the mid-1960s, found a boat to Greenland.

For example, Greenland is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark, with its own government in place and little oversight from the Danish government.

Elections in Greenland have been taking place since 1979.

* Qaanaaq, a place in northwest Greenland

The hunt is currently practiced in six countries: Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Russia.

After spending the winter in Iceland, Erik returned to Greenland in 985 with a large number of colonists and established two colonies on its southwest coast: the Eastern Settlement or Eystribyggð, in modern-day Qaqortoq, and the Western Settlement or Vestribyggð, close to present-day Nuuk.

Other stations were located at New Mexico State University, the University of Texas at Austin, Sicily, Japan, Seychelles Island, Thule Greenland and a number of other locations.

The appearance of European or Russian White-fronted Geese, of the race albifrons and Greenland White-fronted Geese, of the race flavirostris, differ in a number of ways.

The majority of Belugas live in the arctic and the seas and coasts around North America, Russia and Greenland ; their worldwide population is thought to number around 150, 000 individuals.

Some institutes are in turn divided into a number of sections and laboratories, and the faculty also encompasses several national and international research centres, and has a number of field stations in Denmark and in Greenland, among them the Arctic Station in central West Greenland.

The 1980s saw Greenland become home to a number of bands inspired by Jamaican reggae and African American funk, like Aalut and Zikaza.

Although it was never apparently settled by Norsemen, there were probably a number of later expeditions from Greenland to gather timber.

A remix of " Bakerman " by British DJ Shaun Baker reached number one in Greenland in 2006.

A number of plant, animal and fungal species have been named to his honour, e. g. Saxifraga nathorstii ( Dusén ) Hayek ( East Greenland saxifrage ) and a suite of fossil plant species, Williamsonia nathorstii Carruthers ( a fossil dragonfly ) and Laestadites nathorstii Mesch.

Although this role is now basically obsolete, the dorm continues to be a popular solution for many students wanting to get away from home or for a small number of students from Greenland.

The number of glacial earthquakes at the Helheim Glacier and the northwest Greenland glaciers increased substantially between 1993 and 2005.

A good number of species grow in glacial habitat, such as S. biflora which can be found some above sea level in the Alps, or the East Greenland Saxifrage ( S. nathorstii ).

A surprisingly high number of species have become extinct after human colonization, especially of island groups such as New Zealand, Hawaii and Greenland.

Warmings published a number of treatises based on his expedition to Southwest Greenland in 1884.

Any person registered as of 2 April 1968 ( 1 May 1972 in Greenland ) or later in a Danish civil register, receives a personal identification number.

The seizure of the Pueblo was one of a number of crises facing the Johnson Administration in January 1968: the Battle of Khe Sanh had commenced on 21 January ; also on 21 January, a nuclear-armed B-52 Stratofortress crashed in Greenland spreading radioactive material over a wide area.

It is designated a Special Protection Area due to its importance for a number of breeding and wintering birds, particularly Greenland White-fronted Goose and Chough.