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The ecoregion covers the coastal fringe of Greenland, from 75° N latitude at Melville Bay, around the northern coast to 70° N at Scoresby Bay on the east coast. The coastal bands south of this are in the Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra ecoregion. The coast is rugged, although less so than the south, with deep inlets from the sea.
The ecoregion covers the southern coastal fringe of Greenland, from a high of 75° N latitude at Melville Bay, around the southern coast to 70° N at Scoresby Bay on the east coast. The coastal bands north of this are in the Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra ecoregion. The coast is rugged, with a mean elevation of 561 metres (1,841 ft), with ...
The maximum elevation is 1,633 metres (5,358 ft). The ecoregion to the north on Baffin Island is the Davis Highlands tundra, which receives more than twice as much precipitation (400-600 mm/year). [6] The terrain varies across the ecoregion. The north and west is mountainous and heavily covered in ice.
Northeast Greenland National Park (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, Danish: Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). [1] Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its present size ...
An enlargeable map of Greenland. Pronunciation: / ˈ ɡ r iː n l ən d / Common English country name: Greenland; Official English country name: Greenland of the Kingdom of Denmark; Common endonym(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Official endonym(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Adjectival(s): Greenlandic (disambiguation) Demonym(s): Greenlander(s) Etymology: Name ...
Kalaallit are a Greenlandic Inuit ethnic group, being the largest group in Greenland, concentrated in the west. It is also a contemporary term in the Greenlandic language for the Indigenous of Greenland ( Greenlandic : Kalaallit Nunaat ). [ 3 ]
Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra: Greenland: Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra: Greenland: Low Arctic tundra: Canada: Middle Arctic tundra: Canada: Ogilvie–MacKenzie alpine tundra: Canada, United States: Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra: Canada United States: Torngat Mountain tundra: Canada: Palearctic realm; Arctic desert ...
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