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  1. The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting human activity largely to the coasts. The first humans are thought to have arrived in Greenland around 2500 BCE.

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    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. 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. Though under ...

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  3. 1721: The first Danish settlement is created near present-day Nuuk . 1776: Denmark assumes a full monopoly of trade with the island. 1800s: Greenland is explored and mapped in this period of time. 1814: Norway lost Greenland as a result of the Treaty of Kiel .

  4. 3 days ago · Greenland, the world’s largest island, lying in the North Atlantic Ocean. Greenland is noted for its vast tundra and immense glaciers. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but the island’s home-rule government is responsible for most domestic affairs.

  5. Norse settlement. Main article: Norse settlements in Greenland. 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.

  6. History of Greenland. The Inuit are believed to have crossed to northwest Greenland from North America, using the islands of the Canadian Arctic as stepping-stones, in a series of migrations that stretched from at least 2500 bce to the early 2nd millennium ce. Each wave of migration represented different Inuit cultures.

  7. Beginning. History. Languages. Administrative divisions. Landscape. Climate. Related pages. Notes. References. Other websites. Greenland. Geography of Greenland. The bedrock under the ice. Sermeq Kujatdlek Glacier at West Coast. Greenland is the world's largest island. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

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