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 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.

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 ).

The KGH monopolies were ended in 1950 ; Greenland was made an equal part of the Danish Kingdom in 1953 and Home Rule granted in 1979.

While cod was formerly the main catch, today the industry centers on cold-water shrimp and Greenland halibut.

In 2009 Air Greenland reportedly was interested in starting a route from Iqaluit to Nuuk.

Evidence was heard from David Cameron's environment adviser Zac Goldsmith, climate scientist James E. Hansen and an Inuit leader from Greenland, all saying that climate change was already seriously affecting life around the world.

The Great Auk was found in the cold North Atlantic coastal waters along the coasts of Canada, the northeastern United States, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Great Britain, France, and northern Spain.

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

* 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.

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.

The microcontinent was originally part of the Greenland Plate, but now forms part of the Eurasian Plate.

Rasmussen was born in Ilulissat, Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary, the vicar Christian Rasmussen, and an Inuit-Danish mother, Lovise Rasmussen ( née Fleischer ).

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

The Fourth Thule Expedition ( 1919 – 1920 ) was in east Greenland where Rasmussen spent several months collecting ethnographic data near Angmagssalik.

In 1931, he went on the Sixth Thule Expedition, designed to consolidate Denmark's claim on a portion of eastern Greenland that was contested by Norway.

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.

The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.

On his return to Greenland he tells the story and inspires Leif Ericsson to organise an expedition, which retraces in reverse the route Bjarni had followed, past a land of flat stones ( Helluland ) and a land of forests ( Markland ).

Disruption to air travel in Iceland commenced on 22 May, followed by Greenland, Scotland, Norway, Svalbard and a small part of Denmark on subsequent days.

The Lutheran mission was not as successful as the Moravian missions in Greenland, but the expansion of colonies and trading outposts under Jacob Severin's company and the General Trade Company was always eventually followed by a chapel or church at the site.

The airport in the largest city in Greenland was a priority for the government, followed by Kulusuk Airport in Kulusuk in south-eastern Greenland, and Ilulissat Airport in Ilulissat, the largest town in the Disko Bay region of western Greenland.

The Athabaskan-speaking Inuit people ( formerly known as Eskimos ) of northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland follow or followed this custom.

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.

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.

The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).

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.

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

They also settled in the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Scotland ( Caithness, the Hebrides and the Northern Isles ), Greenland, and Canada.

Generally speaking, the Norwegians expanded to the north and west to places such as Ireland, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland ; the Danes to England and France, settling in the Danelaw ( northern / eastern England ) and Normandy ; and the Swedes to the east, founding the Kievan Rus, the original Russia.

In other developments, both Iceland and Greenland accepted the overlordship of Norway, but Scotland was able to repulse a Norse invasion and broker a favorable peace settlement.

The literature also documents extensive drumlin fields in England, Scotland and Wales, Switzerland, Poland, Estonia ( Vooremaa ), Sweden, around Lake Constance north of the Alps, County Monaghan, County Mayo, County Cavan, County Fermanagh and County Down in Ireland, Germany, Hindsholm in Denmark, Finland and Greenland.

Archean rocks are known from Greenland, the Canadian Shield, the Baltic Shield, Scotland, India, Brazil, western Australia, and southern Africa.

They established states and settlements in areas which today are part of the Faroe Islands, England, Scotland, Wales, Iceland, Finland, Ireland, Russia, Canada, Greenland, France, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany.

The Great Northern Loon breeds in North America, Greenland, Iceland, and Scotland.

In the British Isles, two races overwinter: Greenland birds in Scotland and Ireland, and Russian birds in England and Wales.

* Breeding in eastern Greenland, wintering on the Hebrides of western Scotland and in western Ireland.

Females, typically weighing, are slightly larger than males, which weigh n The record weight for the species was for a specimen from Scotland, while a more recent huge female from Greenland reportedly spanned across the wings.

", about the viability of a independent Catalonia, used Playmobil figures in animated clips showing the histories of Greenland, Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia.

* May 31 – Annular solar eclipse in Northern Scotland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland, with partial eclipse covering much of Europe and Russia.

Distribution: circumpolar, at high latitudes, from Scotland east across Scandinavia, Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland ; southern limits in Europe in the Pyrenees and the Alps, in Asia to the Altay Mountains, and in North America to British Columbia in the west, and Maine and New Hampshire in the United States in the east.

Rather than take the safer Montreal – Labrador – Greenland – Iceland – Scotland route ( although, going further north could mean the wings icing and distorting, and the plane crashing ); Kerkorian preferred the direct " Iceland Wave " route which blew the planes at jet-speed to Europe – but it wasn't constant, and could mean ditching.

In the early Paleozoic, the Iapetus Ocean formed a wide oceanic basin between the paleocontinents of Laurentia ( Scotland, Greenland and North America ) to the west and Baltica ( Scandinavia and parts of northeastern Europe ) to the east.

*** Distribution: Greenland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Scotland, North Spain down to the Canaries and the Mediterranean, Massachusetts.

Phanerozoic examples are usually smaller and include the Rùm peridotite complex of Scotland and the Skaergaard igneous complex of east Greenland.

The Far Islands and Other Cold Places ( ISBN 1-880654-11-3 ) is a collection of travel essays from Norway, Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Canada and Alaska.

A proposed 6000-km alternative route, mixing undersea and overland travel, would head north from Newfoundland over the ice sheet of Greenland and across Iceland to the Faroe Islands and then Scotland.

It may be eaten fresh or cooked in Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and Ireland.