In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

The arctic fox has a circumpolar range, meaning that it is found throughout the entire Arctic, including the outer edges of Greenland, Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Svalbard, as well as in Subarctic and alpine areas, such as Iceland and mainland alpine Scandinavia.

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

In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit.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

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 ).

Greenland has no land boundaries and 44, 087 km of coastline.

Greenland has 18 towns-settlements with more than 500 inhabitants.

Following the closure of the Maarmorilik lead and zinc mine in 1990 and the collapse of the cod fisheries amid colder ocean currents, Greenland faced foreign trade deficits and a shrinking economy, but it has been growing since 1993.

While the Greenland Home Rule Government has primary sovereignty over mineral deposits on the mainland, oil resources are within the domain of the Danish exclusive economic zone.

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

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.

Agriculture is presently of little importance in the economy but climate change in southern Greenland, the growing season averages about three weeks longer than a decade ago has enabled expanded production of existing crops.

Similarly, it has enabled new crops like apples, strawberries, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and carrots to be grown and for the cultivated areas of the country to be extended although even now only about 1 % of Greenland is considered arable.

Reindeer herding has been introduced to Greenland in waves since 1952.

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

Greenland has domestic microwave radio relay.

As of 1998, Greenland has five AM and twelve FM radio broadcast stations.

Greenland has a single Internet Service Provider ( ISP ).

The transportation system in Greenland is very unusual in that Greenland has no railways, no inland waterways, and virtually no roads between towns.

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.

Until 2009, it had also been one of two official languages of Greenland ( alongside Greenlandic ).

By birthplace one can derive the following origins of the inhabitants: born on the Faroes 91. 7 %, in Denmark 5. 8 %, and in Greenland 0. 3 %.

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.

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.

Denmark and Norway in one form or another also maintained land claims in Greenland since the 13th century.

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

All but one were from the Laurasian supercontinent, which comprised Europe, North America and Greenland.

He sometimes organized his own troupe and toured bases both in the U. S. and overseas, often small installations that the USO did not serve, like one tour of Greenland, Baffinland, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Another point calling the map's authenticity into question was raised at the 1966 Conference: that one caption referred to Bishop Eirik of Greenland " and neighboring regions " ( in Latin, " regionumque finitimarum "), a title known previously from the work of religious scholar Luka Jelic ( 1863 – 1922 ).

Despite the apparent failure of the Norse Greenland colonies, they mark one of the great achievements in Norse expansion and exploration.

The Grœnlendinga saga (' Greenlanders Saga ') tells that one year he sailed to Iceland to visit his parents as usual, only to find that his father had gone with Eric the Red to Greenland.

Since no one in his crew had been to Greenland before, they had to search for it.

He reported his findings in Greenland but no one seems to have shown interest in them until, after his father's death, he returned to Norway.

In one case, the entire body of a reindeer was found in the stomach of a Greenland shark, a species found in the far northern Atlantic, although this was quite possibly a case of scavenging considering the dissimilarity of habitats between the ungulate and the large, slow-moving fish.

Further, the Norse community in Greenland agreed to submit to the Norwegian king in 1261, and in 1262 Haakon achieved one of his long-standing ambitions when he managed to incorporate Iceland into his kingdom by utilising the island's internal conflicts in his favour.

White in 1968, was at one time included in leucogenys It is found in the Arctic tundra of North America to Greenland, and migrates to wintering grounds in Central and South America.

A recent trend in GCMs is to apply them as components of Earth system models, e. g. by coupling to ice sheet models for the dynamics of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and one or more chemical transport models ( CTMs ) for species important to climate.

Marie, Michigan, to protect the Soo Locks ( one battalion ), Savannah River Site ( two ), and one 90mm and two Skysweeper battalions at Thule Air Base, Greenland ( all were removed by 1959 ).

Greenland and the Faroe Islands have one Commissioner each.

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

All of Greenland's electricity is powered by the government owned company Nukissiorfiit, that has a monopoly on the electricity in Greenland.

The majority of the 72 buses and 2, 570 cars owned in Greenland ( as of 2004 ) operate in Nuuk.

The precedent was the Act the Greenland Company had obtained from Parliament in 1645 prohibiting the import of whale products into England, except in ships owned by that company.

The alternative comedian Malcolm Hardee drowned in the dock in 2005 while rowing to his houseboat from the floating pub he owned, the Wibbley Wobbley, which is moored at the Thames end of Greenland Dock.

* Greenland Gap, a preserve owned by The Nature Conservancy