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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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  2. 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 ...
  3. historyextra.com

    Jan 15, 2025Smothered by sheets of ice and rugged tundra, Greenland is the world's largest island. Situated in the cold waters of the north Atlantic and crossing through the Arctic circle, the sparsely populated landscape has long seemed to sit quietly on the margins of geopolitics - and history. Greenland ...
  4. worldhistory.org

    Learn about the Norse settlement of Greenland in the late 980s CE, their subsistence strategies, society, and disappearance in the 15th century CE. Explore the history, geography, and culture of the world's largest island and its Viking legacy.
  5. cambridge.org

    Greenland had become a Danish concern with the consequent necessity of devising and implementing definite and consistent policies—a subject of intense discussion and controversy over the years, the present being no exception.
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