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Image of the Thule Land Bridge in Context with the North Atlantic. The Thule Land Bridge (also called the Thulean North Atlantic Bridge [1]) was a land bridge, now submerged beneath the Atlantic Ocean, that connected the British Isles to central Greenland. [1] The land bridge appeared during the Late Paleocene and disappeared during the early ...
These colonies died out in the 1400s, but Norway's territorial claims to Greenland continued to be asserted by Denmark-Norway after the union of the Danish and Norwegian realms in 1537. Beginning in 1721, missionaries and traders from Denmark-Norway began recolonizing southern Greenland. In 1775, Denmark-Norway declared Greenland a colony. [32]
1263: Greenland then becomes crown dependency of Norway. 1355: In 1355 union king Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway (Magnus VII of Norway; The Swedish king had been crowned king of Norway through birthright) sent a ship (or ships) to Greenland to inspect its Western and Eastern Settlements. Sailors found settlements entirely Norse and Christian.
Greenland, which had been settled by the Norsemen in the 980s, [1] submitted to Norwegian rule in 1261. [2] Denmark and Sweden entered the Kalmar Union with Norway in 1397 under the Queen of Norway, and Norway's overseas territories including Greenland later became subject to the king in Copenhagen. [3]
Scientists at CIRES estimate that there are 136 acres of waste from Camp Century buried under the ice, including 53,000 gallons of diesel fuel, 63,000 gallons of wastewater and an unknown volume ...
When the union between the crowns of Denmark and Norway was dissolved in 1814, the Treaty of Kiel severed Norway's former colonies and left them under the control of the Danish monarch. Norway occupied then-uninhabited eastern Greenland as Erik the Red's Land in July 1931, claiming that it constituted terra nullius .
c. 1350: The Norse Western Settlement in Greenland was abandoned. 1354: King Magnus of Sweden and Norway authorised Paul Knutson to lead an expedition to Greenland which may never have taken place. c.1450–1480s: [2] The Norse Eastern Settlement in Greenland was abandoned during the opening stages of the Little Ice Age [broken anchor].
Europeans probably became aware of Greenland's existence in the late 9th century, after Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, while sailing from Norway to Iceland, was blown off course by a storm and sighted some islands off Greenland. During the 980s explorers led by Erik the Red set out from Iceland and reached the southwest coast of Greenland.