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  1. britannica.com

    4 days agoGreenland - Viking, Inuit, Colonization: The Inuit are believed to have crossed to northwest Greenland from North America, using the islands of the Canadian Arctic as stepping-stones, in a series of migrations that stretched from at least 2500 bce to the early 2nd millennium ce. Each wave of migration represented different Inuit cultures. Several distinct cultures are known, including those ...
  2. britannica.com

    4 days agoGreenland's major physical feature is its massive ice sheet, which is second only to Antarctica's in size. The Greenland Ice Sheet has an average thickness of 5,000 feet (1,500 metres), reaches a maximum thickness of about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres), and covers more than 700,000 square miles (1,800,000 square km)—over four-fifths of Greenland's total land area.
  3. localhistories.org

    Eventually, the European population of Greenland rose to over 3,000. In 1126 Greenland gained a bishop and in 1261 Greenland became part of Norway. Then in 1380, Norway was joined with Denmark and Greenland came under Danish rule. Throughout history, the climate of the Earth has varied. In the 10th century, the Earth was relatively warm.
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    1940: Denmark is occupied by Nazi Germany and Greenland is therefore cut off. The United States assumes custody over the island.. 1945: Greenland is given back to Denmark but the US and NATO use the island as a base for operations. 1953: Greenland is now integrated with Denmark and has representation in Denmark's parliament. 1968: An American B-52 bomber crashes on the island.
  5. visitgreenland.com

    ANCIENT HISTORY, HISTORY AND MODERN TIMES. The first people to set foot in Greenland arrived around 4-5000 years ago from the North American continent via Canada when the sea froze in the narrow strait at Thule in northern Greenland. No less than six different Inuit cultures have immigrated in several waves.
  6. cambridge.org

    C. Hurst and Company in 1970 (The Greenland. history of 1. Earliest limes to 1700) and 1973 (2. 1700—1782) respectively. The author is a Danish teacher and historian, who has lived and worked in Greenland for many years. The work will constitute the first complete history of the country and is extremely detailed and thorough.
  7. worldhistory.org

    Greenland was drawn into the Viking Age and settled by Norse Vikings in the late 980s CE, their presence there lasting into the 15th century CE. Despite its ice-riddled geography, the Norse managed to carve out a living for themselves in these unforgiving lands by seeking out verdant pockets along the south-western coast, founding both the so-called Eastern Settlement (which is located ...
  8. history.stanford.edu

    Jan 1, 2025Denmark wanted to sell it a century ago. The U.S. didn't bite but did acquire the Virgin Islands.Critics are sharpening their pens to excoriate President Trump for again proposing to purchase Greenland. The real-estate baron wants to buy not only the land but also Greenland's political sovereignty. Many commentators derided the idea when Mr. Trump raised it during his first term. Then and ...
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    History of Greenland

    The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting human activity largely to the coasts. The first humans are thought to have arrived in Greenland around 2500 BCE. Their descendants apparently died out and were succeeded by several other groups migrating from continental North America. There has been no evidence discovered that Greenland was known to Norsemen until the ninth century CE, when Norse Icelandic explorers settled on its southwestern coast. The ancestors of the Greenlandic Inuit who live there today appear to have migrated there later, around the year 1200, from northwestern Greenland. While the Inuit survived in the icy world of the Little Ice Age, the early Norse settlements along the southwestern coast disappeared, leaving the Inuit as the only inhabitants of the island for several centuries. Wikipedia

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