Exploring world's largest island Greenland

Exploring world's largest island Greenland

With a population of fewer than 60,000, Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark. The island is rich in natural resources and occupies a strategically important location.

Dennis Lehtonen's Aerial Views of Remote Greenland Villages Illuminate an Evolving Land

The world’s largest island that isn’t its own continent, Greenland spans more than 836,000 square miles. As we’ve been reminded recently, the territory is part of the Realm of Denmark, although it has its own systems of local government. Greenland is home to only about 56,000 people, the vast majority of whom are Inuit and live on the southern part of the island that’s not covered in ice. The largest city, Nuuk, houses around one-third of the co…

Southern Greenland | NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis: STS-45 Science Mission

Southern Greenland | NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis: STS-45 Science MissionGreenland (called Tartupaluk in Inuktitut and Greenlandic) is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands. It shares a small 1.2 km border with Canada on Hans Island. Citizens of Greenland are full citizens of Denmark and of the European Union…