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Its name is an acronym for Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, the gap being the two stretches of open ocean among these three landmasses. It separates the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea from the open Atlantic Ocean. The term is typically used in relation to military topics.
Greenland Native name: Grønland Kalaallit Nunaat Outline map of Greenland with ice sheet depths. (Much of the area in green has permanent snow cover, but less than 10m (33ft) thick.) Geography Location Between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean Coordinates Area 2,166,086 km 2 (836,330 sq mi) Area rank 1st Coastline 44,087 km (27394.4 mi) Highest elevation 3,694 m (12119 ft) Highest ...
Greenland bedrock is above sea level. Greenland is the world's largest non-continental island [81] and the third largest area in North America after Canada and the United States. [82] It is between latitudes 59° and 83°N, and longitudes 11° and 74°W.
Scoresby Sound (Danish: Scoresby Sund, Greenlandic: Kangertittivaq) is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately 110 km (68 mi) [ 2 ] long that branches into a system of fjords covering an area of about 38,000 km 2 (14,700 sq mi).
Island map (left) and coast map (right) Ammassalik wooden maps are carved, tactile maps of the Greenlandic coastlines. In the 1880s, Gustav Holm led an expedition to the Ammassalik coast of eastern Greenland, where he met several Tunumiit, or Eastern Greenland Inuit communities, who had had no prior direct contact with Europeans.
Tasiilaq, formerly Ammassalik or Angmagssalik (Danish names: Kong Oscars Havn or simply Oscarshavn), is a town on Ammassalik Island in southeastern Greenland, within the municipality of Sermersooq. With 1,985 inhabitants as of 2020, [1] it is the most populous community on the eastern coast, and the seventh-largest town in Greenland.
Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, is located near the mouth of the fjord, on a mountainous peninsula bounding the fjord from the southeast. Kapisillit (Lakskaj) is located 75 km (47 mi) northeast of Nuuk, near the head of Kapisillit Kangerluaq , [ 5 ] one of the tributary fjords of Nuup Kangerlua.