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[1] 25 June – Google Translate adds support for Kalaallisut. [2] 27 June - A polar bear is sighted in Disko Bay near Alluttoq Island, north of Ilulissat. [3] 29 June - The yearly Danish royal visit begins. King Frederik and Queen Mary land at Pituffik Space Base and are greeted by Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede. [4]
The Greenland ice sheet is 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) 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 Greenland's Grand Canyon or the possibility that Greenland might actually ...
Greenland has been inhabited at intervals over at least the last 4,500 years by circumpolar peoples whose forebears migrated there from what is now Canada. [18] [19] Norsemen settled the uninhabited southern part of Greenland beginning in the 10th century (having previously settled Iceland), and the 13th century saw the arrival of Inuit.
The study found that an estimated 11,000 square miles of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the past 30 years — an area roughly nine times the size of Rhode Island and ...
The research suggests the critical threshold for the Greenland ice sheet is between 1.7 and 2.3 degrees C of global warming. Bochow said humanity would have 100 years — perhaps more — to cool ...
The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 19,900 inhabitants. [1] In Greenland, two kinds of settled areas are distinguished: illoqarfik (Greenlandic for 'town'; by in Danish) and nunaqarfik (Greenlandic for 'settlement'; bygd in Danish).
Like most European nations, Greenland switched over to daylight saving time on March 25, 2023, moving their clocks one hour forward. But they observed the seasonal ritual for the last time.
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