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 land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

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.

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.

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.

Denmark is trying to prove that the North Pole is geographically connected to Greenland.

Danish is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish crown territories of the Faroe Islands ( where it is also an official language after Faroese ) and Greenland ( where, however, the only official language since 2009 is Kalaallisut ), as well as the former crown holding of Iceland.

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

In addition, Malta was considered an island of North Africa for centuries, while Iceland, though nearer to Greenland ( North America ), is also generally included in Europe.

In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit.

Nevertheless, it is commonly felt in Canada and Greenland that the term Eskimo is pejorative.

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.

However, while Inuit describes all of the Eskimo peoples in Canada and Greenland, that is not true in Alaska and Siberia.

The Greenland craton is made up of some of the oldest rocks on the face of the earth.

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

The Greenland ice sheet is thick and broad enough to blanket an area the size of Mexico.

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.

An island located between Greenland and Canadian Arctic islands.

Several American and Danish military bases are located in Greenland, including the US Thule Air Base.

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.

* Something of, from, or related to Greenland, the self-governing Danish province ( and largest island in the world ) located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

The University of Greenland ( Ilisimatusarfik ), which is the only university in Greenland, is located in Nuuk.

Nuuk is also home to the Department of Learning ( Ilinniarfissuaq ), the oldest educational facility in Greenland, located in the old colonial part of Nuuk ( Nuutoqaq: Old Nuuk ).

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

Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland, is located in Nuuk and is the national university of Greenland.

Iceland is located east of Greenland and immediately south of the Arctic Circle, atop the constructive boundary of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Greenland is located at ( 35. 994749 ,-94. 180699 ).

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.

Upernavik ( Kalaallisut: " Springtime Place ") is a small town in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, located on a small island of the same name.

Jan Mayen is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean located at the border of the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea.

It is located in the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Siberia, and has a length of about 1, 800 kilometers.

The tallest construction in Greenland, the 378-meter Globecom Tower ( Radio Mast Thule ), is located near the town.

Kangerlussuaq ( Kalaallisut: " Big Fjord "), also Sondrestrom, is a settlement in western Greenland in the Qeqqata municipality located at the head of the fjord of the same name ().

Ilulissat, formerly Jakobshavn, is a town in the Qaasuitsup municipality in western Greenland, located approximately north of the Arctic Circle.

Narsarsuaq was the principal city of Greenland in the times of Erik the Red, whose Brattahlíð farm is believed to have been located west of the settlement, in Qassiarsuk across the Tunulliarfik Fjord.

Hans Island ( Inuktitut / Greenlandic: Tartupaluk ; ; ) is a small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring, long and wide, located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait — the strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea.

The Greenland campsite was located from the coast at an estimated altitude of 3, 000 meters ( 9, 843 feet ).

The camp is located approximately 360 km from the east coast and 500 km from the west coast of Greenland at ( Saattut, Uummannaq ), and 200 km NNE of the historical ice sheet camp Eismitte.

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.

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

* Uncontested dispute with Canada over Hans Island sovereignty in the Kennedy Channel between Canadian Ellesmere Island and Greenland.

A fragment from a 15th century ( pre-Columbus ) Old Norse encyclopedic text entitled Gripla (‘‘ Little Compendium ’’) places Ginnungagap between Greenland and Vinland:

A modern-day dispute between Norway and Denmark regarding the fishing exclusion zone between Jan Mayen and Greenland was settled in 1988 granting Denmark the greater area of sovereignty.

They are reported as seasonally common in the Canadian Arctic, including Baffin Bay between Greenland and Nunavut, and around Tasmania and Macquarie Island.

For the next seven years Rasmussen traveled between Greenland and Denmark giving lectures and writing.

Traditional kayaks encompass three types: Baidarkas, from the Alaskan & Aleutian seas, the oldest design, whose rounded shape and numerous chines give them an almost Blimp-like appearance ; West Greenland kayaks, with fewer chines and a more angular shape, with gunwales rising to a point at the bow and stern ; and East Greenland kayaks that appear similar to the West Greenland style, but often fit more snugly to the paddler and possess a steeper angle between gunwale and stem, which lends maneuvrability.

* Kennedy Channel, a sea passage between Canada and Greenland

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

Greenland and Europe separated and the north-east Atlantic Ocean was formed between them.

One expedition wintered during the winter between 1892 and 1893 in Western Greenland.

Today, Greenland, Antarctica, and the northern portions of Europe, Asia, and North America are situated such that a minor change in solar energy will tip the balance between year-round snow / ice preservation and complete summer melting.

Independence II has been called an intermediate phase between the earlier cultures and the Dorset culture, which arrived in Greenland in around 700 BC ; recent studies have shown the cultures may be identical within Greenland.

The library holdings are split between the public library in the town center and Ilimmarfik, the campus of the University of Greenland.