Greenland yta
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Greenland is a large island with a small population
Greenland is the world’s largest island, spanning more than 835,000 square miles, with around almost 80% of that land covered by ice caps and glaciers.
Contributing: Elizabeth Weise
Greenland today
Today, Greenland is a mixture of modernity and tradition.
More: 'Buy us!': Greenlanders shocked, intrigued, bewildered by Trump zeal for Arctic territoryHere’s what to know about the sparsely populated, frozen territory. The U.S. miliary was investigating whether it could store ballistic missiles in underground trenches below the ice that could reach Russia from Greenland. The Greenland Government is investigating ways to profit from the mineral resources of the island, which includes gold, natural gas, diamonds, lead and zinc.
I inuiternas myter spelar solen en viktig roll.
Grönland riksvapen
Grönlands riksvapen överensstämmer med det danska.
Riksvapnet är känt från Valdemar den Stores tid (1157 – 1182).
Ursprungligen var antalet hjärtan obestämt men 1819 fastställdes deras antal till nio.
Grönland karta
Min resa till Grönland
Grönland historia
Det finns många intressanta och spännande länder.
Läs om några av dessa på min hemsida
www.stalvik.se /rainer stalvik
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Later, during the Cold War, the U.S.
established a military base called Camp Century in Greenland as a top-secret site for testing the feasibility of deploying nuclear missiles. Denmark supports Greenland with a substantial annual block grant.
Fishing is still the most important driver of the Greenlandic economy. But Greenland has a rich history on the world stage.
More than you might think.
Greenland's on-and-off relationship with the U.S.
Greenland has had a long, and at times tumultuous, relationship with the United States.
What to know about Greenland, the big frozen island Trump wants to control
Colorful red, blue and yellow houses dot its snow-covered hills.
The rare earth minerals found on the island have been described as “critical raw materials" by the European Commission that are used to make weapons, small electronics and clean-energy technologies, like electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines.
More: Why does Trump want Greenland and the Panama Canal so badly? However, the fishing industry is not able to sustain as many jobs as it used to. More: 'One way or the other': Five ways Trump's Greenland saga could play outIn 2004, the Inuit people filed a human rights complaint against the U.S. arguing that it’s policies were substantially contributing to global warming and were threatening the livelihood of their people. One reason may surprise you
Off the coast of Greenland, the U.S.
Geological Survey has estimated that there are more than 31 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and natural gas.
The U.S. opened its first consulate in Greenland in more than half a century in 2020 during Trump’s first term. Seals, whales and fish swim in the frigid, glacial waters that lap its shores. But it also preserves its small towns and traditional settlements, where the primary source of income still is seal hunting.
Everyone has access to publicly-funded education, a public health service, and pensions.
President Donald Trump’s recent calls for the U.S. to acquire control of the large arctic island have put it in the spotlight. Avsaknaden av det nordiska korset visar Grönlands nyvunna politiska frihet och gemenskapen med andra inuitfolk kring polen.
I fältets mitt ses den flammande röda solen över horisonten, inlandsisen och ishavets bländande vithet.
Melting ice in Greenland has exposed rich natural resources. A report published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Letters found that the ice covering Greenland is losing around 110 million Olympic size swimming pools worth of water annually.
The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II.
President Harry Truman offered $100 million − about $1.3 billion today − in gold to Denmark for Greenland after the war but they declined the offer. They crossed the Bering Strait, a narrow passage between present day Russia and Alaska, into North America, and then traversed north into Greenland, according to Denmark's official website.