12 Facts about Greenland That You Might Not Know

One fact that I have never forgotten is the hospitality of the Greenlanders. After visiting 63 countries, these people have helped me the most.

We were stationed in Iceland in the early 80's. When flying home to the States, we flew over Greenland. The mountains were not only massive, but extremely high, as well. We were flying at 46,000 feet and it felt like we could reach out and touch the mountains!

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A few years ago we went to Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. It was Greenland weekend. Greenlanders had come to sell their wares and have a good time. They were incredibly nice people and certainly knew how to party!

The chain of ice-free, inhabited areas along parts of the Greenland coast could be like a cold-weather version of the Out Islands of the Bahamas (which I just recently visited), in which boats outnumber people and cars are mainly used just within the villages and towns. (Although at least some of the Bahamian Out Islands, unlike Greenland, do have roads connecting the towns.)

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I spent a year at Sondrestrom AB, Greenland just above the Artic Circle in 1974 while in the US Air Force. Saw all the unusual sites of Greenland; Northern Lights, Musk Ox, Caribou, months of darkness, months of daylight, etc. I was an Air Traffic Controller and at that time we controlled ALL aviation between North America and Europe with only 3 guys in a small room. This was well before GPS. A great experience although winter was not my favorite time to be there.

Imagine whats frozen under the ice, ancient UFOs

Beautiful scenery! So different from the Swiss nature

note: 2.5Mya was about when the Isthmus of Panama formed. Prior to that, the warm equatorial ocean current flowed east to west into the gulf of Mexico and then out to the Pacific. Afterwards, it goes back out the strait of Florida, into the north Atlantic. I believe all this warm water increases evaporation, and subsequent snowfall at the high northern latitudes. When the Milankovitch cycles are aligned, this is sufficient to persist snow through the summer, hence the northern hemisphere ice age started ~2.5Mya with intermittent inter-glacials

There's also the still unsolved mystery of what became of the original Norse Viking settlements in Greenland. While Eric the Red first established the earliest known settlement in 986AD, by the 1200s AD, due to a mini-Ice Age and the Black Plague making communication and trade with Greenland less and less viable, it became more isolated and cut off from the outside world. The last confirmed record of Norse life in Greenland came in 1408 AD when an Icelandic bachelor married a Norse Greenlandic widow in the tiny stone church in Hvalsey then the two immediately moved away to to his home in Iceland and would have a family of their own. Because some Icelandic wedding guests wrote about this wedding, THAT is why this record of the event would survive. However when the Danes decided to resume colonization of this gigantic island in the early 1700's, they discovered the Viking settlements had been completely abandoned with no sign of what had happened to the last Norse Greenlanders though it's likely that some biracial Inuit Greenlanders may be descended from them!

+1 fun fact: Greenland actually has a forest. It's not big, but I was very surprised when I heard that for the first time.

So this video has more views than Greenland's population.

In southern Greenland the sun does set in summer but only briefly and twilight remains. There is no full darkness. North of the Arctic Circle there is midnight sun in summer and no sunrise in winter.

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Fun Fact..the Iceberg that Titanic hit to it..that was also from Greenland...