Danish is widely spoken in Greenland, and an unknown portion of the native Greenlandic population has Danish as their first language.

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.

TELE Greenland first used satellite communication in 1978 and currently utilizes Intelsat and Eutelsat.

* 2002-Iqaluit, along with Nuuk, Greenland, co-host the first jointly hosted Arctic Winter Games ; the Arctic Winter Games Arena was constructed in Iqaluit for the event.

The kayak was first made and used by the native Ainu, Aleut and Eskimo hunters in sub-Arctic regions of northeastern Asia, North America and Greenland.

In 1906, Roald Amundsen first successfully completed a path from Greenland to Alaska in the sloop Gjøa.

In April 2009 Greenland landed its first bowhead whale in nearly forty years after being given a quota by the IWC in 2008 for two whales a year until 2012.

* Arnald becomes the first Bishop of Greenland.

* Greenland is discovered by Erik the Red ( the first known European contact with North America ).

According to the Sagas, the first European to see Canada was Bjarni Herjólfsson, who was blown off course en route from Iceland to Greenland in the summer of 985 or 986 CE.

Greenland National Museum is located in Nuuk and was one of the first museums established in Greenland, inaugurated in the mid-1960s.

The first European to find his home in the boundaries of the future town was Henry Greenland.

Erik Thorvaldsson (; 950 – c. 1003 ), known as Erik the Red (), is remembered in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland.

Even though popular history credits Erik as the first person to discover Greenland, the Icelandic sagas suggest that earlier Norsemen discovered and tried to settle it before him.

According to records from the time, Galti headed the first Norse attempt to colonize Greenland, which ended in disaster.

Fernandes actually gave the name of Terra do Lavrador to Greenland which was the first land he sighted, but eventually the name was spread to all areas and finally was set for Labrador.

English navigators Martin Frobisher and Henry Hudson were the first Europeans known to have visited the area ( although Viking sailors, coming from Greenland, may have made occasional landings and hunting treks on Baffin Island in the 11th and 12th centuries ).

* 1733-Moravians establish their first mission in Greenland

* 1764-The Moravians make a decision to expand and begin publicizing their missionary activity, particularly in the British colonies ; Moravian Jens Haven makes the first of three exploratory missionary journeys to Greenland

Leif Ericson ( or ; ; Icelandic: Leifur Eiríksson ; Norwegian: Leiv Eiriksson c. 970 – c. 1020 ) was a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America ( excluding Greenland ), nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

Erik founded the first Norse colonies in Greenland, and was based at the family estate Brattahlíð in the so-called Eastern Settlement, where Leif had his upbringing.

When Erik was himself banished from Iceland, he traveled further west to an area he named Greenland, where he established the first permanent settlement in 986.

As soon as he was well, he ran away from home, with the sole idea of somehow reaching Greenland.

The flag of Greenland was designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen.

In the music video for singer Björk's song Declare Independence, the flag of the Faroe Islands ( as well as that of Greenland ) are featured on the uniforms of those who appear in the video.

In 2005, military personnel also conducted a patrol, during which they raised a Canadian flag on Hans Island – a small, barren island in the Nares Strait, between northern Ellesmere Island and Greenland.

historical flag of Greenland

alt = Map displaying a looping line with arrows indicating that water flows eastward in the far Southern ocean, angling north east of Australia, turning sough after passing Alaska, then crossing the mid-Pacific to flow north of Australia, continuing west below Africa, then turning northwest until reaching eastern Canada, then angling east to southern Europe, then finally turning south just below Greenland and flowing down the Americas ' eastern coast, and resuming its flow eastward to complete the circle

The armed forces of the Kingdom of Denmark, known as the Danish Defence () is charged with the defence of Denmark and its overseas territories, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

There has been some movement to use Inuit, and the Inuit Circumpolar Council, representing a circumpolar population of 150, 000 Inuit and Yupik people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Siberia, in its charter defines Inuit for use within the ICC as including " the Inupiat, Yupik ( Alaska ), Inuit, Inuvialuit ( Canada ), Kalaallit ( Greenland ) and Yupik ( Russia ).

The ice is so massive that its weight presses the bedrock of Greenland below sea level and is so all-concealing that not until recently did scientists discover that Greenland might actually be three islands.

Image: Greenland. A2003233. 1340. 250m. jpg | The fractal coastline of eastern Greenland, with its many fjords.

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 ).

Most EU laws do not apply to Greenland ; however, owing to its connection with Denmark, Greenland continues to enjoy preferential access to EU markets.

In the same year, Greenland exercised its new control over the Royal Greenland Trading Company to reëstablish it as KNI.

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

From 16, 747 cellular phones in 2001, Greenland increased its usage to 66, 400 mobile cellular telephones in 2007.

Although the Norwegian council never recognized the declaration formally, and Norway kept some separate institutions and its legal system, this had the practical effect that the Norwegian possessions of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands came under direct control of the crown.

He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.

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

The fact that Pytheas lived centuries before the colonization of Iceland and Greenland by European agriculturalists makes them less likely candidates, as Thule was populated and its soil was tilled.

1933 was a busy year for the court, which cleared its 20th case ( and " greatest triumph "); the Eastern Greenland Case.