Greenland is the largest island in the world, mostly covered in ice. It has a population of around 56,000 people, who speak Greenlandic and a little English. The economy was traditionally based on fishing and hunting but is diversifying into mining and tourism. Greenland has a parliamentary government as a self-governing territory of Denmark. The climate is arctic and varies greatly across the island, rarely reaching 10 degrees Celsius even in summer. Melting glaciers are a natural threat as the climate changes.

1. Greenland
By: Dylan Brooks
Take a Tour of Greenland

3. Where Do You Want To Go?
Geography Major Feature 2 Economy 2 Food
Economy 3 Natural disaster 2
Geography 2 People
Religion Government
Geography 3 People 2
Natural disaster People 3 Holidays Bibliography
Major Features Economy Holidays 2 Sports
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4. Bibliography
• www.greenlandexpo.com
• www.greenland.com
• www.worldfacts.us/greenland
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5. Geography
• Greenland occupies an area of 2,166,086
square kilometers which makes it the
largest island in the world.
• Greenland is mostly covered in ice, but
there is some grasslands.
• The most Northern point of Greenland is
Cape Morris Jesup
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6. Geography 2
• The most Southern point in Greenland is
Cape Farewell
• The climate varies very great from North to
South and East to West.
• In the summer the warmest temperature is
in the middle of summer, reaching only 10
degrees celsius.
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7. Geography 3
• The icebergs raise astonishing 3000
meters over sea level
• The most productive glacier moves
30 meters a day
• Because of the ice in the summer it
rarely reaches 10 degrees Celsius
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8. Major Natural Disasters
• 1 major disaster is the ice melting
• The Glaciers name is Academy
Glacier
• Every day Greenland's glacier is
moving closer and closer to the ocean
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9. Major Natural Disaster 2
• The Glacier is moving roughly 30 meters a
day
• The Glacier covers almost all of Greenland
• The only place it doesn’t cover is around
the edges, near the water
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10. Major features
• One of the Major features are the Northern
lights
• Every so often on a clear night the
Northern lights are out
• The people of Greenland, when these
lights occur the people watch as the lights
go across the sky in beautiful colors
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11. Major features 2
• The second major feature is the Glaciers
• The Glaciers show what life was like back
when there ancestors were around
preserving facts on how they lived
• The Glaciers are slowly melting though, so
hundreds of years from now it'll all be gone
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12. People
• The harsh arctic climate is great for fishing
and also hunting, but first if they want to
hunt the animals, they have to find where
they are.
• The herd of animals is always on the run
looking for dry grass to eat in the winter
climates
• Greenland's main languages are
Greenlandic and also a little bit of English
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13. People 2
• In Greenland the infant morality is 15.4
deaths every 1000 births.
• The first people to arrive in Greenland
were the Paleo Eskimos
• These people were discovered through
archeologist findings
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14. People 3
• In 986 B.C. the most southwestern point of
Greenland was claimed by two groups
• The Icelanders and the Norwegians
• It was also shared with the Inuit people,
which is still one of Greenland's major
Ethnic groups
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15. Religion
• Greenland's religion is Evangelical
Lutheran
• Greenland is very religious
• 96.6% of people are religious
• But 2.2% of the people aren't religious
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16. Holidays
• On December first is New Years Eve
• January first, they have New Years
Day just like us
• The fourth week after Easter
everyone goes to churches to general
prayer
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17. Holidays 2
• On June 21 is Ullortuneq
• The biggest Holiday in Greenland is
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
• There the most important holidays
because it’s the time when people
visit and eat for two days strait with
their family
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18. Economy
• Greenland's economy has historically been
based on the seafood industries, but new
opportunities were presented, which will
diversify the economy
• Greenland is also known for mining gold,
rubies, oil, and even diamonds
• Greenland is situated between two major
economies (Europe and north America) making
it a gateway for trade.
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19. Economy 2
• In the 1990s Greenland's economy
had negative growth
• But since 1993 it started climbing
slowly back up out of the hole it put
itself in
• The main currency is DKr otherwise
known as Danish Krone
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20. Economy 3
• The Global warming is having great effect
on Greenland, which is making it hard to
reach hunting ground
• If they cant get to there hunting ground
there losing lots of money each day they
cant get there
• Tourism is cut short because of high
prices and short seasons
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21. Food
• Greenland's food has been based
historically based on seafood
• Even today its been based on seafood
• Since of ice melting, its been harder to
reach the fishing grounds with the ice in
the way
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22. Government
• Greenland's Government is
Parliamentary
• Greenland is a self-governing
overseas administrative division of
Denmark
• The Party system is dominated by the
Inuit Community
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23. Sports
• Greenland's main sport is Futball,
otherwise known as Soccer
• The league is called the A.T.A.
• A.T.A stands for Ammaassalimmi
Timersoqatigiiffik Amassakak
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