| Date: | April 19, 2006 12:49 pm |
| Subject: | Science | | Word Count: | 170 | | Page Count: | 1 |
Greenland
Greenland
The geography of Greenland is quite ironic considering its name. Greenland is
Located in the northern part of North America. It is between the Arctic Ocean and the
North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada. Greenland’s area is approximately 2,715,600 square kilometers. Its area is slightly more than 3 times the size of Texas. It is the largest island in the world. It is also primarily by the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay and from Iceland on the east, by the Denmark Strait.
Greenland’s terrain is flat to a gradually sloping icecap. It covers everything but
a narrow, mountainous, rocky coast. It’s climate has cool summers and very cold
winters! During the summertime in the southern part of Greenland, the average
Temperature is 48° Fahrenheit. The climate of Greenland is generally dry. People have
lived on Greenland for about 5, 000 years, the earliest belonging to what are called the
Independence I, Saqqaq, and Independence II cultures. Greenland is the source of
many weather changes in the Northern Hemisphere. Their natural
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